AUTHENTICATE LINUX FTP SERVER AGAINST ACTIVE DIRECTORY & AUTOMATING HOME FOLDER CREATION WITH PYTHON

==Topics covered in this video==
- How to install VSFTPD and create a Linux FTP server
- Integrate vsftpd with Active Directory
- How to install Samba and create a Linux share
- How to install Python 3.9 On Linux
- How to create a Powershell script on Windows to export AD users in a CSV file
- How to schedule a task on Windows to run a PowerShell script.
- How to create a Python script to automate home folder creation on Linux.
- How to install Cron and how to create a cronjob on Linux to run a Python script.
- A brief and simple explanation of Cron syntax.
- How to configure Linux Firewall
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==Contents of this video==
0:00 Intro
0:46 Update linux
1:03 Install VSFTPD
1:26 Editing VSFTPD config file
2:59 Installing OpenSSL
3:12 Generate SSL certificate
3:27 Securing the FTP server with SSL cert
4:05 Preliminary FTP test
5:12 Home folder creation workaround details
5:48 Installing Samba on Linux
6:32 Creating a share using Samba on Linux
7:45 Creating Powershell script to export users
8:35 Installing Python on Linux Debian
10:28 Creating a Python script on Linux To automate home folder creation
12:49 Creating a scheduled task to run the Powershell script on windows
14:10 Installing cron on Linux
14:17 Creating a new cronjob
14:27 A short explaining of the cron syntax
14:53 Editing the cronjob details to run the Python script daily
15:30 Testing the cronjob
15:45 Testing the FTP server against Active directory
16:16 Limiting access to the FTP server (configuring Firewall rules)
17:02 Creating the Firewall rules
17:55 Outro
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==GitHub repository with all the required code/commands==
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==How to install Python on Debian==
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==How to install Python on Ubuntu==
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[kinggold]

hello, I watched your tutorial video. I encountered a problem. When I use a python script to create a user folder, both the owner and group of the folder belong to root. Although the permission is set to 777, I still cannot access it when I try to use firezilla.