I setup vsftpd on ubuntu server on my ec2 instance, how to connect using SSH?

Question

I connect to my ec2 instance using ssh so I don't have to login each time.

I just installed vsftpd on the ubuntu server, but when I connect it obviously asks for my username and password.

Since I connect using the ubuntu user that my AMI comes with, I don't even know the root password.

Is there a way I can login via ftp using SSH?

Or do I just create a user on the system for ftp purposes?

I've locked ftp to my IP address, and I will shutdown the ftp service once I'm done as I dont need it running 99.99999% of the time.

Answer 1

If you're not comfortable with command line scp then you could use a client like filezilla configured in it's server manager dialogue to connect to Server Type: SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol

You may have to enable the sftp server on your AMI. Check that the line

Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

is not commented out with a # in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Answer 2

No. SSH and FTP are different protocols.

If you have SSH running then just use scp or rsync to copy files over, no FTP needed.

Answer 3

First you will have to set up password for your ubuntu server ec2 instance. If your username is 'ubuntu' you can create a password for it using

sudo passwd ubuntu

You can then try connecting to EC2 instance using FTP with the username and password.

If i'm right, you'll have to set filezilla or your FTP client to active mode ( from preferences ) to connect to EC2 instance.

If you havent configured your FTP server in EC2 Ubuntu instance, here is a guide to do that http://quadloops.com/installing-up-ftp-server-in-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-server-12-04/