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
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