vsftpd

brew install vsftpd v3.0.5 GPL-2.0-only

Secure FTP server for UNIX

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Caveats

To use chroot, vsftpd requires root privileges, so you will need to run
`sudo vsftpd`.
You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges.

The vsftpd.conf file must be owned by root or vsftpd will refuse to start:
  sudo chown root $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/vsftpd.conf

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