Advanced example walk through with TLS & automatic user account

Taken from our test which is run during all changes to the container.

Pull down the latest version

docker pull stilliard/pure-ftpd:hardened

Create a volume for your TLS certificate

docker volume create --name ftp_tls

Start it up

In here we're creating a demo certificate & a test user called "bob" with a password of "test"

docker run -d --name ftpd_server -p 21:21 -p 30000-30009:30000-30009 -e "PUBLICHOST=localhost" -e "ADDED_FLAGS=-d -d --tls 2" -e "TLS_CN=localhost" -e "TLS_ORG=Demo" -e "TLS_C=UK" -e"TLS_USE_DSAPRAM=true" -e FTP_USER_NAME=bob -e FTP_USER_PASS=test -e FTP_USER_HOME=/home/ftpusers/bob -v ftp_tls:/etc/ssl/private/ stilliard/pure-ftpd:hardened

Watch over the logs to see the progress, the last line should print the pure-ftpd command being used to run

When this line shows it should be all up and running and ready to use

docker logs -f ftpd_server

You may want to retrieve the certificate to allow in your ftp client

You can echo out the certificate path like so:

echo "$$(sudo docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' ftp_tls)/pure-ftpd.pem"

Now you should be ready to test FTPS access

You can connect with any FTPS client, such as Filezilla

Or connect locally with the lftp command:

certPath="$$(sudo docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' ftp_tls)/pure-ftpd.pem"
lftp -u bob,test -e "set ssl:ca-file '$certPath'" localhost 21
# now you're in!
# you can run commands list ls, get, put and rm to manage files this way and exit any time

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