How to Solve PureFTPD "Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted"

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Hello,

If you try to connect pureFTPD, but you see in your error logs something like this [WARNING] Sorry, cleartext sessions are not accepted on this server. #043 Please reconnect using SSL/TLS security mechanisms.

You can follow this simple step to solve it :

  1. login to your root account
  2. open pureftpd conf
    nano /etc/pure-fptd/pure-ftpd.conf
  3. change line from TLS 2to TLS 0
  4. Then save your configuration
  5. Restart your pureftpd

Now, you can connect to your ftp

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That would make ftp transfers not secure?

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it is better and more secure to use FTPS instead of plaintext FTP