Change FTP server to use port other than 21

Several of you have asked how to change your FTP server to use a port other than the default port of 21. Ports in the range of 0-1023 are reserved and well-known ports, with port 21 being the established standard for FTP. The reason most people want to do this is to make it harder for someone to gain unauthorized access to your FTP server.

Although this may make it more difficult for someone to discover that you are running an FTP server, this by itself will not prevent someone from being able to discover and potentially hack into your FTP server. If you decide to use this technique, keep in mind that this is no substitute for other types of security and should be viewed as only a very small piece of your security infrastructure. If you have existing FTP programs or scripts, you will need to change them to access your new FTP port.

For anyone who has tried to do this, you may have noticed that the port can't be changed using the CHGFTPA command. Here is how to make the changes.

When you access FTP from the AS/400, you will now have to specify the port. From the AS/400 the FTP command would look like this:

From the DOS prompt, it would look like this:

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About the author: Tim is vice president of Technical Services at Interlink Technologies in Maumee, Ohio, where he serves as chief architect for their warehouse management system. He has worked in the ba

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