-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, as long as you don't use wuftpd, your probably ok. That's the only Linux ftp server I know about that has really serious security issues. - -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please lieve in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, nick G wrote: > Go ahead and do it! It's ok, ProFTPD is secure. They say VSFTPD is better, > but I have no clue. > Thanks, > Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net> > To: "Speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:05 AM > Subject: Re: Proftpd question > > > > Hi, > > Got it working. I just moved the files to /home/ftp and made a symlink in > > /var/www. Is it ok from a security standpoint to open up ftp to the > outside > > world? I have an unofficial mirror of the unofficial Dectalk archive, an > > archive of Dectalk as well as several other synths singing, performing > > skits, and all sorts of other weirdness. Would it be ok to allow the > > outside world to access this via ftp? They can already access it via > http. > > Jayson. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Joseph C. Lininger" < > > jbahm at pcdesk.net> > > > > To: "Jayson Smith" < > > ratguy at bellsouth.net> > > > > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:22 AM > > Subject: Re: Proftpd question > > > > > Well, that depends. If the allow symlinks option is set in apache, then > > this will work. . I assume you are trying to access these files in > /var/www > > via anonymous ftp right? I can't remember what your doing now. If you are > > trying to do this, why not set the anonymous account to access /var/www. > If > > you did that, the chroot would be to that directory and you wouldn't have > a > > problem. > > > > > > -- > > > Joseph C. Lininger > > > > > jbahm at pcdesk.net > > > Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please lieve in > > > tact if quoting me in a reply. > > > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+C+YJ6dqn0mqPbARApWuAKDm9Ke26TkU4X0KJPT8Xe18CUcfLQCgmFY9 fPE8+LAzVBOlD/Kb4THHv9I= =XNpj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
