In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation and configuration of VSFTPD on Ubuntu 16.04. VSFTPD is an initialism of Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. It is free and open source, fast, stable, lightweight and very secure FTP server for Unix and Linux operating systems, authorized under the GNU General Public License. VSFTPD is one of the most used FTP servers for Linux and it is used as a default FTP server in some of the biggest Linux distros such as CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL. Installing VSFTP on Ubuntu is an easy task, carefully follow the steps below and you should have it installed in less than 10 minutes.
