Thanks much for the advice. I am firewalling off FTP for now! I will wait for pro_ftp to get fixed. This coincides with what I have seen so far.
Thanks for the input ! paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Seth R Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:20 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: FTP servers and security help > > > Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of > software, it > might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on > bugtraq is due > to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd > recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the > debian maintainer will have a patch out soon, if not already -- > if you don't > want to deal with compiling your own server. > > proftpd just seems nicer. :) > > On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:49:14PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: > > I have debian installed and am very impressed. Apache is > running. WU_FTP > > is running. Mostly through no fault of my own :). The > installation did an > > excellent job ! > > > > My question regards previous mailings to this group discussing > PRO_FTP and > > security issues. Which FTP server do you recommend ? I am new to FTP > > servers outside of windows. My concerns are security and > > administration/directory-user-control. > > > > many thanks in advance, > > > > paul > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into > your ~/.signature to help me spread! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
