The document discusses configuring FTP on RHEL7. It describes installing the vsftpd package to provide FTP services. It then covers enabling and starting the vsftpd service, and opening the FTP port in the firewall to make the FTP server accessible both locally and over the network.

1. FTP Configuration in RHEL7
In this scenario, local Repository has been built with Operating System Media so that packages
get installed from media,
In RHEL, as same as in previous versions, ftp services served by the package/daemon called vsftpd i.e.
Very Secure FTP Daemon,
[root@linux ~]#
[root@linux ~]#
[root@linux ~]# yum install vsftpd
Command to install VSFTPD package is as follows,
[root@linux ~]# yum install vsftpd
Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You
can use subscription-manager to register.
local
| 4.1 kB 00:00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vsftpd.x86_64 0:3.0.2-9.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch
Version Repository
Size
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Installing:
vsftpd x86_64
3.0.2-9.el7 local
166 k
Transaction Summary
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2. Install 1 Package
Total download size: 166 k
Installed size: 343 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : vsftpd-3.0.2-9.el7.x86_64
1/1
Verifying : vsftpd-3.0.2-9.el7.x86_64
1/1
Installed:
vsftpd.x86_64 0:3.0.2-9.el7
Complete!
[root@linux ~]#
Once the installation of package completes, enable the vsftpd service at startup. This can be done using
the following command,
[root@linux ~]# systemctl enable vsftpd.service
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service'
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vsftpd.service'
[root@linux ~]#
Then start the service using systemctl as below,
[root@linux ~]# systemctl start vsftpd.service
[root@linux ~]#
Now FTP Service is enabled and available for localhost. To make available through LAN or outside
network, this has to be enabled through firewall,
To do the same, following is the command to allow ftp through firewall,
[root@linux ~]#
[root@linux ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp
Success
To save the rule, execute the following command,

3. [root@linux ~]# firewall-cmd --reload
success
[root@linux ~]#
Now we are ready with FTP Server configuration. From any other machine, just go to browser and type
ftp://192.168.x.x/ and it will open list of files which are available in FTP default directory