On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:09:44PM -0700, James Harrison wrote: > --- "F. Kooman" <fkooman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Allowing trusted users in is even worse than allowing anonymous users > > (plain text authentication) in short: you shouldn't use ftp at all... > If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet. Not really...I think he makes a very valid point that allowing trusted users to login via FTP is worse than allowing anonymous users FTP access. FTP should only ever be used in anonymous mode, like HTTP servers are mostly used for. If you don't what that, don't enable the service.
