ftp daemons

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 1:52 PM
> To: Mark Hutchings; kclug
> Subject: Re: ftp daemons
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Hutchings" <desynergy at onebox.com>
> 
> > just dont use wu-ftp :)
> 
> Hmm.  "Hacker heaven" even.  I thought it was the "securable 
> solution" to
> the holes in NCSA FTPD or whatever used to be the default.
Yes "securable". Check out all the Security Alerts issued by CERT on
WU-FTP.

If you need a good sized number of accounts ProFTP is your best bet. If
you
just need it for a few people, and you need to install ssh anyway, sftp
is
built into it. Just make sure when you install ssh you disable protocol
1
entirely. My server has never been hacked, and I get hits from
Singapore, Taiwan,
China and Korea daily. Trust me I'm no security guru, I just keep my
patches up to
date [more or less ;')]. That should say something about the secure and
stable 
nature of ssh.

uptime 231 days. Would be 600+ if not for the physical move over 7
months ago. And 
the recompile of the kernel. Any way to recompile the kernel and load
the new kernel 
without a reboot? Sure would be nice.

Brian