Re: FTP server

Brad Dodd wrote:

> I need to set up a non-anonymous, hopefully secure FTP server.  After
> reading through the pros/cons of a bunch of different server programs I
> have almost settled on PROFTPD.  Is there a better option?  PROFTPD will
> run as a non-root account, and was better recommended than wu-ftp.  But,
> I am finding that all FTP servers are basically vunerable to breaking
> out of a chroot() jail for a user's root directory.  Is this something
> to really be worried about?

You may want to check out vsftpd.  A lot of distributions seem to be 
switching to it as the default ftp server because it is supposed to be 
more secure than the others.  SuSE actually said that there were a lot 
of security issues with ProFTP and that was why they switched.

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Trey Gruel
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