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Note: As of February 2015, curlftpfs is reported to be extremely slow, see for example a Ubuntu bug report and a stackoverflow.com question.

CurlFtpFS is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.

## Installation

Install the curlftpfs package.

If needed, make sure that fuse has been started.

    # modprobe fuse

## Mount FTP folder as root

Create the mount point and then mount the FTP folder.

    # mkdir /mnt/ftp
    # curlftpfs ftp.yourserver.com /mnt/ftp/ -o user=username:password

If you want to give other (regular) users access right, use the `allow_other` option:

    # curlftpfs ftp.yourserver.com /mnt/ftp/ -o user=username:password,allow_other

Do not add space after the comma or the `allow_other` argument will not be recognized.

To use FTP in active mode add the option 'ftp_port=-':

    # curlftpfs ftp.yourserver.com /mnt/ftp/ -o user=username:password,allow_other,ftp_port=-

You can add this line to /etc/fstab to mount automatically.

    curlftpfs#USER:PASSWORD@ftp.domain.org /mnt/mydomainorg fuse auto,user,uid=1000,allow_other,_netdev 0 0

Tip: You can use codepage="string" when having problems with non-US English characters on servers that do not support UTF8, e.g. codepage="iso8859-1"

To prevent the password to be shown in the process list, create a `.netrc` file in the home directory of the user running curlftpfs and `chmod 600` with the following content:

    machine ftp.yourserver.com
    login username
    password mypassword

## Mount FTP folder as normal user

You can also mount as normal user (always use the `.netrc` file for the credentials and ssl encryption!):

    $ mkdir ~/my-server
    $ curlftpfs -o ssl,utf8 ftp://my-server.tld/ ~/my-server

if the answer is

    Error connecting to ftp: QUOT command failed with 500

then the server does not support the `utf8` option. Leave it out and all will be fine.

Tip: If need be try setting the encoding with for example -o codepage="iso8859-1"

To unmount:

    $ fusermount -u ~/my-server

## Connect to encrypted server

In it's default settings, CurlFtpFS will authenticate in cleartext when connecting to a non encrypted connection port. If the remote server is configured to refuse non encrypted authentification method / force encrypted authentification, CurlFtpFS will return a

    # Error connecting to ftp: Access denied: 530

To authenticate to the ftp server using explicit encrypted authentification, you must specify the ssl or tsl option.

    # curlftpfs ftp.yourserver.com /mnt/ftp/ -o ssl,user=username:password

If your server uses a self-generated certificate not thrusted by your computer, you can specify to ignore it

    # curlftpfs ftp.yourserver.com /mnt/ftp/ -o ssl,no_verify_peer,no_verify_hostname,user=username:password

An implicit tsl mode is also available. For more details, check the manual page.

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- File systems
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