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I will be using pureftp on in this tutorial as its more secure and fast.

1) Download pureftp to the server
goto root
and make folder setup
mkdir setup
cd setup
wget ftp://ftp.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.29.tar.gz

2) Untar the file
tar -xvzf pure-ftpd-1.0.29.tar.gz

3) Goto the folder where the files are unzipped via tar.
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.29.tar.gz

4) Compile and install the files to the server.
./configure --with-puredb
make install-strip

You have installed pure-ftp in /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd

5) Now start pure-ftp with this command.
/usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -j -lpuredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb &

6)Now starting adding users to pure-ftp by first creating ftp group and then ftp user with its password and directory it can access all this can be done in simple commands as below

groupadd ftpgroup
useradd -g ftpgroup -d /dev/null -s /etc ftpuser (ignore error)

To Add user
pure-pw useradd test1 -u ftpuser -d /home/ftpusers/test1

Remeber to make database file on every command you execute from adding user, password or deleting them
pure-pw mkdb

You can change password of user
pure-pw passwd test1

Delete user with
pure-pw userdel test1

Show details of user
pure-pw show test1

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