Re: FreeBSD Help again!!!

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:37:09PM +0300, Noah K Sematimba wrote:
> You should NOT use telnet at all and ftp is jsut as bad since both
> protocols send passwords and usernames in cleartext and as such your
> communications can be intercepted.

But you might have a legitimate use for ftp if you are running a public FTP
server for distributing files.

Also, many Windoze users are unable to use anything else for uploading their
web content. In that case, you may have to run FTP but you would be advised
to limit the IP addresses which are allowed to upload to your site to just
your own users/customers in /etc/hosts.allow

ftpd : 192.0.2.0/255.255.255.0 : allow       # example netblock
ftpd : ALL : deny

(put these rules at the top, before all the example stuff, since it starts
with ALL : ALL : allow which lets everybody in to every service)

Regards,

Brian.

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