FTP Server

Uses pyftpdlib.

To download the required packages, first create and activate a python virtual environment and then run this command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This is a simple FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server which allows sharing of files over the internet or on a local network. This server is not secure at all since it does not use any encryption.

Requirements to run

When the code runs, it will expect a couple of folders and files to be present in the root folder, it will crash if they don't exist. Those files and folders are not included in the repo.

Two of the folders that it expects are named in the variables "private_files" and "shared_files". These different folders are available to different user types when they connect to the server. For example the "admin" user type will have access to "private_files" while others might only have access to the folder pointed to by "shared_files".

The user accounts used for logging into the server will be fetched from the file "users.csv" (see how CSV works) while the different user types available for these accounts can be found in code. If "users.csv" doesn't exist the program will crash. The structure of the file is like this:

username	password	user_type
examplename	examplepassword	admin
anotherexample	anotherpassword	admin

(The header needs to be included in the actual file, also there has to be newlines at the end of each row)