Proftpd question

[nick G]

Go ahead and do it!  It's ok, ProFTPD is secure.  They say VSFTPD is better,
but I have no clue.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: Proftpd question


> Hi,
> Got it working.  I just moved the files to /home/ftp and made a symlink in
> /var/www.  Is it ok from a security standpoint to open up ftp to the
outside
> world?  I have an unofficial mirror of the unofficial Dectalk archive, an
> archive of Dectalk as well as several other synths singing, performing
> skits, and all sorts of other weirdness.  Would it be ok to allow the
> outside world to access this via ftp?  They can already access it via
http.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <
> jbahm at pcdesk.net>
>
> To: "Jayson Smith" <
> ratguy at bellsouth.net>
>
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Proftpd question
>
> > Well, that depends. If the allow symlinks option is set in apache, then
> this will work. . I assume you are trying to access these files in
/var/www
> via anonymous ftp right? I can't remember what your doing now. If you are
> trying to do this, why not set the anonymous account to access /var/www.
If
> you did that, the chroot would be to that directory and you wouldn't have
a
> problem.
> >
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