Getting error while installing FTP server in RHEL6

Hari91 · 10-10-2018, 05:11 AM

[root@localhost ~]# yum install vsftpd* -y
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Setting up Install Process
No package vsftpd* available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]#

Turbocapitalist · 10-10-2018, 05:18 AM

Welcome.

What are you actually aiming to do? FTP is insecure and will be hard to configure and even harder to work through the firewall even in passive mode. If you would like to upload files securely there is SFTP instead and that is built into OpenSSH-server, so you probably already have it running.

Hari91 · 10-10-2018, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turbocapitalist

Welcome.

What are you actually aiming to do? FTP is insecure and will be hard to configure and even harder to work through the firewall even in passive mode. If you would like to upload files securely there is SFTP instead and that is built into OpenSSH-server, so you probably already have it running.

I am still learning the course and now practicing the servers to config in my laptop. So when i am trying to install in RHEL6 it is showing error like as previously mentioned. So please let me help anyone

Turbocapitalist · 10-10-2018, 05:28 AM

The guide or course chapter is badly out of date if it is still mentioning FTP in anything other than a historical context.