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nullgeppetto

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Registered: 2015-09-23

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Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

I have set up a Very Secure FTP server in a remote machine that I manage (that also runs Arch Linux) following the guideline of the wiki. I'm interested in accessing this using a gui file manager like Dolphin or Nautilus. In Dolphin this is possible as follows

fish://username@remote_ip_address

A similar result would have the following in Nautilus:

sftp://username@remote_ip_address

The former works just fine for me (Arch Linux with KDE), but not for other users that use Ubuntu with Nautilus.

It seems that "one must set the line `local_enable` in `/etc/vsftpd.conf` to `YES` in order to allow users in /etc/passwd to login, but it doesn't work for me (after restarting the `vsftpd.service`).

EDIT: It seems that it's not an Arch Linux or KDE issue. It's an Ubuntu and/or Nautilus one. If you think that the question should be deleted, please do so.

Last edited by nullgeppetto (2018-06-29 16:16:57)

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lo1

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

It seems that it's not an Arch Linux or KDE issue. It's an Ubuntu and/or Nautilus one. If you think that the question should be deleted, please do so.

If you have anything useful to share that demonstrate this fact, and you're ok with your post being deleted, just use the report button and ask for a moderator to do so.

EDIT: now it makes much more sense

Last edited by lo1 (2018-06-29 19:34:53)

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nullgeppetto

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

It seems that it's not an Arch Linux or KDE issue. It's an Ubuntu and/or Nautilus one. If you think that the question should be deleted, please do so.

If you have anything useful to share that demonstrate this fact, and you're ok with your post being deleted, just use the report button and ask for a moderator to do so.

EDIT: now it makes much more sense

I thought that it should be deleted, since it seems that it's irrelevant to Arch; I'm just waiting to solve it and post a solution (just in case Arch is involved in any sense). Otherwise I'll act as you suggest and flag it for deletion. Thanks!

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

Note that sftp and ftp are not the same thing, sftp is built on top of ssh. Try ftp:// instead.

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nullgeppetto

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

Note that sftp and ftp are not the same thing, sftp is built on top of ssh. Try ftp:// instead.

This solved the issue, thank you.

Again, this is obviously not an Arch issue. I will flag the original post so as if a moderator thinks that it should be delete it, they could do so.

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progandy

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

I suggest you look into securing vsftpd with ssl encryptiong (ftpS) or use sftp over ssh. ftp alone is not really secure and your password can be intercepted, VSFTP doesn't change that.

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nullgeppetto

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

I suggest you look into securing vsftpd with ssl encryptiong (ftpS) or use sftp over ssh. ftp alone is not really secure and your password can be intercepted, VSFTP doesn't change that.

I see, thank you. I guess that this can be done by editing `/etc/vsftpd.conf`, right? I'll look into it.

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progandy

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Re: Accessing VSFTP server from a file manager (Dolphin/Nautilus)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ve … secure_FTP

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