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Re: ftp and firewalling (never really works as it is supposed to)

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Subject: Re: ftp and firewalling (never really works as it is supposed to)
From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:39:29 +0200
Joseph Mack wrote:
> 
> Roberto Nibali wrote:
> 
> >    FTP is a bitch and totally broken by design.
> 
> I see that ftp is hard to make secure.

You can't but you can do a lot of things to minimize full breaches.
 
> Do you recommend that people not use ftp and say instead use http for LVSs
> that are delivering files?

For example. Or at least put the ftp daemon in a chroot environment. I was
writing an kernel module to provide ftp when I found the following project:

http://ftpfs.sourceforge.net/

I haven't fully tested it and it's a very dangerous approach but it is
worth to have a look at it. Another possibility is to use the SuSE 
ftp proxy suite. I'll post some results as soon as we tested it back
here.

Regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz

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