Re: FTP servers and security help
Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it
might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due
to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd
recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the
debian maintainer will have a patch out soon, if not already -- if you don't
want to deal with compiling your own server.
proftpd just seems nicer. :)
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:49:14PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote:
> I have debian installed and am very impressed. Apache is running. WU_FTP
> is running. Mostly through no fault of my own :). The installation did an
> excellent job !
>
> My question regards previous mailings to this group discussing PRO_FTP and
> security issues. Which FTP server do you recommend ? I am new to FTP
> servers outside of windows. My concerns are security and
> administration/directory-user-control.
>
> many thanks in advance,
>
> paul
>
>
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