1 This is vsftpd, version 2.2.1
3 Contact: scarybeasts@gmail.com
4 Website: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
5 - All options are documented in the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page.
6 - See the FAQ file for solutions to frequently asked questions.
7 - Visit http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ for vsftpd news and releases.
12 vsftpd is an FTP server, or daemon. The "vs" stands for Very Secure. Obviously
13 this is not a guarantee, but a reflection that I have written the entire
14 codebase with security in mind, and carefully designed the program to be
17 Recent evidence shows that vsftpd is also extremely fast and scalable. vsftpd
18 has achieved ~4000 concurrent users on a single machine, in a production
21 vsftpd is now a proven stable solution. Of particular note, RedHat used vsftpd
22 to enable ftp.redhat.com to support 15,000 concurrent users across their
23 server pool. This extreme load was generated by the release of RedHat 7.2 to
25 vsftpd now powers some of the largest and most prestigious sites on the
31 Please see the INSTALL file.
36 All configuration options are documented in the manual page vsftpd.conf.5.
37 Various example configurations are discussed in the EXAMPLE directory.
38 Frequently asked questions are tackled in the FAQ file.