vsftpd and certificates

wimnat · 01-05-2010, 10:04 PM

Hey,

I've recently been asked to setup our FTP server to accept connections from a remote host. They sent me a file "id_dsa.pub" with instructions to add this key to the xfer user.

Unfortunately I've no idea how to do this!

Can someone give me some instructions please?

I'm running vsftpd 2.0.5 on Centos 5.3

Thanks!

vishesh · 01-05-2010, 10:23 PM

Just log using ftp user on terminal and add public key file id_dsa.pub by following given instruction.

thanks

wimnat · 01-05-2010, 11:12 PM

What instruction? They just told me to "add it". Add it where? Add it using a commmand? Or just copy it to a certain location? Do i need to change a config file setting afterwards?

vishesh · 01-05-2010, 11:37 PM

I think they mean append public key file to authorized keys
ftp_user$cd .ssh
ftp_user$ cat id_rsa.pub>> authorized_keys

Thanks

wimnat · 01-06-2010, 12:14 AM

Thanks. I'll try that and see what they say.