If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet.
James
--- "F. Kooman" <fkooman(a)bromstraat.net> 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...
Fran�ois
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