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Configuring vsFTPd on CentOS with different port

Check Installing CentOS 6.2 on VMware post.

– make sure SELINUX is disabled and iptables is configured for FTP

– add ftp user

adduser ftpuser -g ftp -s /sbin/nologin -d /server
#set password
passwd ftpuser

– configuration, more info

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Adding new users and admins to Linux server

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Using admin user avoids common mistakes done when logging as root, instead use sudo to run root commands.

mkdir /server

#adding web-server user www
adduser www -d /server -s /sbin/nologin

#adding admins group to use instead of root
groupadd admins
visudo
#add
%admins ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

#add new admin 
adduser admin -g admins
#set password
passwd admin

#add email for user admin
vi /etc/aliases
#add
admin: [email protected]
#rebuild data
newaliases
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increase linux file descriptors

Check Installing CentOS 6.2 on VMware and mounting partitions with noatime posts.

This is very important performance tuning for any web server more information here

#adduser www first http://gadelkareem.com/2012/02/26/adding-new-users-and-admins-to-linux-server/
ulimit -n unlimited - www
#check default number of concurrently open file descriptors 
cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
#set the number to high value depending on server config
echo '1773914' > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 'fs.file-max=1773914' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
/sbin/sysctl -w fs.file-max=1773914
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