If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet. James --- "F. Kooman" <fkooman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
