Re: FTP on IIS

Alexander Gran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.microsoft
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb [email protected]:
> I'm preparing to build a new FTP server using IIS (or an IIS server using
> FTP???  I'm not sure).  Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could recommend
> some good sources on how to lock it down.  I need to configure it for an
> FTP site that anyone can get to and one that is password protected.  Thanks
> in advance!

If there isn't a hard reason to go with IIS, I'd suggest to use a daemon that 
does just ftp, e.g. proftpd or whatever. As this is way less code, it has 
less possible security problems. Will save you hours of configuration / 
updates, too.

regards
Alex
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