10 VsFTP (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol) Interview Questions and Answers
FTP stands for ‘File Transfer Protocol‘ is one of the most widely used and standard protocol available over Internet. FTP works in a Server/Client architecture and is used to transfer file. Initially FTP client were command-line based. Now most of the platform comes bundled with FTP client and server program and a lot of FTP Client/Server Program is available. Here we are presenting 10 Interview Questions based on Vsftp (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol) on a Linux Server.
10 VsFTP Interview Questions
1. What is the Difference between TFTP and FTP Server?
Note: Briefly you can say FTP usages port 21 by default when clarification between Data and Control is not required.
2. How to Restrict Users and Disallow browsing beyond their Home Directories? How?
chroot_local_user=YES
3. How would you manage number of FTP clients that connect to your FTP server?
Answer : We need to set ‘max_client parameter’. This parameter controls the number of clients connecting, if max_client is set to 0, it will allow unlimited clients to connect FTP server.The maximum client parameter needs to be changed in vsftpd.conf and the default value is 0.
4. How to limit the FTP login attempts to fight against botnet/illegal login attempts?
5. How to enable file upload from anonymous users to FTP Server?
6. How would you disabled downloads from FTP server?
7. How to enable and permit FTP login to local users?
8. Is it Possible to maintain log of FTP requests and responses?
Note: In order to create and maintains logs successfully, the parameter ‘xferlog_std_format’ must be enabled.
9. How to disable the login for few seconds, in case of failed login. How will you achieve this?
10. How to display certain text message before a client connects to FTP server. How would you get this done?
FTP is a very Useful tool and is vast yet very interesting. Moreover it is useful from Interview Point of View. We have taken the pain to bring these questions to you and will cover more of these questions in our future article. Till then stay tuned and connected to Tecmint.
Read Also: 10 Advance VsFTP Interview Questions and Answers – Part II
Excellent, not others know about vsftp
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I never use to miss yr article Sir was really good will be waiting for other services interview Questions like apache, Samba, etc…
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Any question about its security, like ssl ?
Anyway great article.
Dear sekto, we would be covering everything step wise.
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Who would go to a FTP only interviu (or who would do) these days ? FTP is an ancient tehnology.
No one! still there are FTP questions in interview and we are trying to cover all possible interview questions subject/topic wise.
Thank you.
It was nice if you explained them via an example.
welcome @ shgn.
Explaining these examples practically was not easy.
where ever possible, we will try to act accordingly.