vsftpd.conf

James Harrison jamesaharrisonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Sep 11 00:09:44 UTC 2004


If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet.

James

--- "F. Kooman" <fkooman at bromstraat.net> wrote:

> 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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> 
> 
> 
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