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Re: No shell, Only FTP access



In article <[🔎] 1144387311.4431.2.camel@haggis.homelan>,
Ron Johnson  <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> > 
>> >>And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the time yet 
>> >>and I also need to setup my own DNS service using BIND...
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Isn't BIND kinda insecure?
>> > 
>> 
>> In what way?
>
>Old, crufty, written before security was a concern.

That's why bind9 is a rewrite from scratch.

See http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/117551/49/

On the other hand, even in bind8 there hasn't been a serious
(remote execution) security hole reported in the last 3 years.

Mike.



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