Hey:

I'm reading along in my book on how to setup the vsFTPd server on my laptop. I installed it and got the message that let's me know it's working but the prompt changes to "ftp" and I don't know how to get out of it. Do I need to be in that mode to make changes to the FTP erver or can I access it from a GUI? How do I get out of that prompt so I can try to access from a terminal?

just say 'bye'

[root@TV ~]# ftp 127.0.0.1
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
220 (vsFTPd 2.0.4)
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
530 Please login with USER and PASS.
KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type
Name (127.0.0.1:root): delta-9
331 Please specify the password.
Password:
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
[root@TV ~]#

If you want an ftp gui look here http://linuxreviews.org/software/ftp-clients/

I just turned on my laptop again and tried to login to the vsftpd using the following command:

As root. "chkconfig vsftpd on", "service vsftpd start", I then see an "OK" to the right of this command.

I then type: "ftp localhost" and I get the following message:
"ftp: localhost: unknown host" and then I get and ftp prompt. What is going on?

I'd also like to know if I can set the server features from a gui? I don't mean a client that accesses it. I mean a gui on the computer that lets me decide who gets access to what ever.

>"ftp: localhost: unknown host" and then I get and ftp prompt. What is going on?
Your pc cannot resolve 'localhost' to an ip address, so if you add
'127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost'
to /etc/hosts that will solve that.

I don't know of any gui to setup vsftp, but if you add the following lines to your vsftpd.conf
ONLY the usernames in /etc/vsftpd.userlist will be allowed to login.

userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.userlist
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO

Skunkburner

Okay. I went into /etc/hosts and added 127.0.0.1 in front of localhost.localdomain localhost. Then I did a loop back ping to make sure I could reach myself. I was able to reach myself but when I tried to login to the vsFTPd server I kept getting the same message of "ftp: localhost: unknown host". I'm thinking about un-installing the server and reloading it again. Does anyone know the command to do this?

Just in case anyone is looking at this for an answer to the same problem:

The answer to this, for me, was that I had given my computer a name before I setup vsFTPd and that made the command of "ftp localhost" invalid. You have to use the name of your computer now. Ex. "ftp yourcomputername". It will work after this.