On 09/17/2010 02:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the > sake of future courses taught on centos.) > > from this RHEL doc page: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html > > the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable > vsftpd, ostensibly in favour of sftp/sftp-server. really? > > i can obviously see disallowing stuff like telnet and rsh and > rlogin, that's a no-brainer. but advising against vsftpd for the sake > of security? i'm not sure i see the logic in that. thoughts? > > rday > We use vsftpd as an FTPS only server in CHROOT mode. The only reason we don't user sftp instead is because it cannot (easily?) CHROOT users.
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