Installing and Configuring Chrooted VSFTPD in CentOS 5.0 or RHEL 5.0

Setting vsftpd is not hard but not easy either, if you want to make it secure. Here is some of my notes:

1. Install vsftpd
# yum install vsftpd
2. Start the service
# /etc/init.d/vsftpd start or # service vsftpd start
3. Edit the vsftpd.conf
# vim /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
4. Uncomment the following directives:
chroot_local_user=YES - to chroot local user
passwd_chroot_enable=YES - prompt the password for the local user
chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list - users in this list will be non-chrooted so be careful