wis2box-ftp

An additional service for the wis2box to enable forwarding data to MinIO via FTP.

Docker-container runs vsftp, openssh and a python-script using to watchdog to forward files from the sftp-directory to MinIO.

Environment variables

The wis2box-ftp requires the following environment-variables:

FTP_USER=wis2box # define your FTP-username 
FTP_PASS=wis2box123 #  define your FTP-password 
PASV_ADDRESS=localhost # set this to your publicly available hostname
FTP_SSL_ENABLED=FALSE # set to TRUE when using SSL-certificates for FTPS/SFTP
LOGGING_LEVEL=INFO # set logging-level
MINIO_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:9000 # set this to the minio-endpoint for your wis2box 
MINIO_ROOT_USER=minio # minio username for your minio-endpoint
MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=minio123 # minio password for your minio-endpoint

with SSL

Set FTP_ENABLED=true

Obtain SSL-certificates for your host, and map them to /etc/ssl/certs/vsftpd.crt and /etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.key in the container

To obtain self-signed certificates on Ubuntu use the openssh command as follows:

sudo openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout mykey.key -out mycert.crt -sha256 -days 365 -nodes

on a remote host accessed using ssh

Please note that SFTP uses port 22 which is typically the same port used to provide remote SSH-access on a cloud-instance or any other non-local machine. If you want to enable SFTP on your host while maintaining SSH-access, you will have to reconfigure SSH on your host to use a non-default port.

For example, on an Ubuntu machine, edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and add/change Port 22 to the port that you want (i.e: Port 222) to connect through ssh and then do service ssh restart. You must ensure that the new port chosen is open for external access (for example by updating the security groups for the EC2-instance when running on AWS) and remember to take into account any port-blocking rules on your local network.