On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:49, James Harrison wrote: > You have a lot of faith in your firewall setup. > > Why have a firewall rule to stop an anonymous someone ftping into the machine > when you can either disable ftp altogether or stop that anonymous someone > accessing the system and only allow known trusted users in. Allowing trusted users in is even worse than allowing anonymous users (plain text authentication) in short: you shouldn't use ftp at all... François -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html