vsftpd.conf

F. Kooman fkooman at bromstraat.net
Fri Sep 10 22:41:21 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:49, James Harrison wrote:
> You have a lot of faith in your firewall setup. 
> 
> Why have a firewall rule to stop an anonymous someone ftping into the machine
> when you can either disable ftp altogether or stop that anonymous someone
> accessing the system and only allow known trusted users in.

Allowing trusted users in is even worse than allowing anonymous users
(plain text authentication) in short: you shouldn't use ftp at all...

François
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