Traditional FTP is rather insecure. When you login, your username and password are transmitted in clear text, raising the possibility of your credentials be ing 'sniffed' by a malicious person. Fortunately there's an easy answer to this. You can quite easily configure your vsftpd server to use OpenSSL encryption, so that usernames & password, and even data files, are encrypted during transfer. It takes just a few simple steps: Vsftpd is already available under CentOS/RHEL default repositories. We assume that CentOS/RHEL users have enabled default repositories in his system. Now execute following command. Note:- This post works with Security-Enhanced Linux ( SELinux ) is enabled Installing and Configuring the Vsftpd in RHEL/CentOS 6.x Step1 :- Install VsFTPd # yum install vsftpd Step2 :- Configure Basic VsFTPd Settings Now Edit Vsftpd configuration file /etc/vsftpd/ vsftpd.conf in CentOS/RHEL and do the some ba