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    <p>Your question is a little unclear because you don't specify what aspect of wordpress "wants" FTP access. If you got WP installed, you clearly have at least some access to the machine already. That said, I'll try to answer around that inclarity. </p> <p>Your questions in order, then some general thoughts:</p> <blockquote> <ol> <li>How do I figure out/set what the username/pass is?</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>Remember that the man page for a program is a good first stop. A good man page will also contain a FILES or "SEE ALSO" section near the bottom that will point you to relevant config files. </p> <p>In this case, "man vsftpd" mentions /etc/vsftpd.conf, so you can then do "man vsftpd.conf" to get info on how to configure it. </p> <p>VSFTPD is configurable, and can allow users to log in in several ways. In the man page, check out "guest_enable" and "guest_username", "local_enable" and "user_sub_token". </p> <p>*The easiest route for your single user usage is probably configuring local_enable, then your username and password would be whatever it is in /etc/password.*</p> <blockquote> <ol> <li>Should I allow anonymous access?</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>No. Since you're using this to admin your Wordpress, there's no reason anyone else should be using this FTP. VSFTPD has this off by default.</p> <blockquote> <ol> <li>Is the hostname just 'localhost'?</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>Depends where you're coming from. 'localhost' maps back to the loopback, or the same physical machine you're on. So if you need to put ftp configuration information for Server A into a wordpress configuration file on Server A, then 'localhost' is perfectly acceptable. If you're trying to configure the pasv_addr_resolve/pasv_addr flag of VSFTPD, then no, you'll want to either pass in the fully qualified name of Server A (serverA.mydomain.com), or leave it off an rely on the IP address.</p> <p>EDIT: I actually forgot the critical disclaimer to <em>never send credentials over plain FTP</em>. Plain old FTP (meaning not SFTP) sends your username and password in cleartext. I didn't install VSFTP and play with it, but you'll want to make sure that there is some form of encryption happening when you connect. Try hitting it with WinSCP (from windows) or sftp (from linux) to make sure you're getting an ecrypted SFTP, rather than plaintext FTP.</p> <p>Apologies if you already knew that ;)</p>
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    1. CO@coffeetocode- Thanks a lot, and btw I tried clarifying my question a bit per your comment. But your answer was helpful.
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    3. CO@coffeetocode- Would SFTP apply to this situation though? The only user would be WordPress, so a secure connection shouldn't be an issue right? And in any case, as @Peter points out, WordPress doesn't support SFTP..
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