Let’s say you have an account on a remote server running some flavour of linux (or even *BSD - I think OpenSSH works the same way on those), and connect to it via ssh from your local linux machine.
There is a simple yet secure way to connect without the need for entering your password on [...]

This is how to install and configure the pure-ftpd ftp server on your Ubuntu or Debian server or workstation.
First use apt to download and install the pure-ftpd package - it is available from default repositories :
root@box:~# apt-get install pure-ftpd
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Setting up pure-ftpd (1.0.21-11ubuntu1) …
Starting ftp server: Running: /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -l pam -u 1000 -E -O clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd/transfer.log -B
As [...]

So you need to physically move around your mysql databases, typically because you want to put them on a another partition or hard drive, or on some network device ? This is how you can do it.
My box runs Ubuntu Server 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), but the following should apply to any recent Debian or Ubuntu [...]