RE: FTP servers and security help
Thanks much for the advice. I am firewalling off FTP for now! I will wait
for pro_ftp to get fixed. This coincides with what I have seen so far.
Thanks for the input !
paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth R Arnold [mailto:sarnold@willamette.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:20 PM
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: 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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