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Originally Posted by cPanelDavidG
The method I would use is to go to WHM -> Service Configuration -> FTP Server Selection, for FTP Server select "Disabled."
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Let me be more precise, disable and shut it down from WHM.
(Anyway I can do that in a heartbeat from shell so it's a moot issue anyway)
The bigger point is that I wouldn't want to in the first place!
I don't recommend anyone disable the FTP server unless they have
a really big reason in doing so because that is a core service and
really limits you a lot if it is removed from the system.
We have recently seen a rise in people wanting to turn off the FTP server
but I think this is from a misconceived idea that there is a FTP vulnerability
that doesn't actually exist prompted from the recent China syndicate iframe
hacks where the hackers are actually keylogging and stealing login information
from the hosting client's home computers and then using that information
to login to the client's hosting and bank accounts. These people need to
know that there is no vulnerability in the FTP server and removing FTP is
not going to do them any good whatsoever.