Usermode FTP Server is a free and open source FTP server application for Linux. Using this application you can turn any system as a secure FPT server and access that files from anywhere. And you don’t need any root access. It is based on pyftpdlib, asyncssh and Gtk4. You can customize your username, password and the ftp folder. It supports FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols. You can connect your server from any file manager, browser and any ftp supported applications.
Install Usermode FTP Server on Ubuntu
You can install Usermode FTP Server as a flatpak package file from the flathub repository. If you don’t have then install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it after the installation. Follow below link for the installation instructions.
Install flatpak and flathub
Open the terminal software (ctrl+alt+t) and run below Usermode FTP Server flatpak install command. It will install the latest version of Usermode FTP Server on your system.
flatpak install flathub eu.ithz.umftpd
After the successful installation of Usermode FTP Server, you can open it from the show applications menu or via below command.
flatpak run eu.ithz.umftpd
And you can also uninstall it via below command.
sudo flatpak uninstall eu.ithz.umftpd
That’s it.
