Proftpd question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Well, as long as you don't use wuftpd, your probably ok. That's the only 
Linux ftp server I know about that has really serious security issues.

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Joseph C. Lininger
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, nick G wrote:

> 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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> > jbahm at pcdesk.net
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