Unixcop published a tutorial about setting up PassivePortRange and PassiveIP in pure-ftpd on Ubuntu .
How to set PassivePortRange and PassiveIP in pure-ftpd on Ubuntu to secure the app!
We will talk about setting PassivePortRange and PassiveIP in pure-ftpd. If you run a firewall on your Linux server and want to use passive FTP connections, you have to define the passive port range in pure-ftpd . The following example is for pure-ftpd on Ubuntu and ISPConfig 3.