snasello/pureftp repository overview

thanks to https://github.com/stilliard/docker-pure-ftpd⁠ and https://github.com/mazelab/docker-ftp⁠

I combine the files from those repositories to make one with ftp tls

⁠Starting it

touch pureftpd.passwd

docker run -p 21:21 -d --name ftp -v $(pwd)/datas:/datas snasello/ftp

⁠Operating it

docker exec -it ftp /bin/bash

⁠Example usage once inside

Create an ftp user: e.g. bob with chroot access only to /datas/ftpusers/bob

pure-pw useradd bob -u ftpuser -d /datas/ftpusers/bob -f /datas/pureftpd.passwd
pure-pw mkdb /datas/pureftpd.pdb -f /datas/pureftpd.passwd

No restart should be needed.

More info on usage here:

• http://download.pureftpd.org/pure-ftpd/doc/README.Virtual-Users⁠
• http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/pureftp.htm⁠

⁠Credits

Thanks for the help on stackoverflow with this! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23930167/installing-pure-ftpd-in-docker-debian-wheezy-error-421⁠

⁠TLS

The container runs default in FTP over TLS only. You can overwrite the dummy certificate with -v myCert.pem:/etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem . You can also change the TLS behavior with the environment variable FTP_TLS.

Run the container with mounted storage, overwrite pure-ftp passwd config and use a custom certificate: docker run -p 21:21 -d --name ftp -v $(pwd)/datas:/datas -v $(pwd)/myCert.pem:/etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem snasello/ftp