RE: Question on PURE-FTP

Hi Jim,

As I said I'm unsure as to what you meant, and yes you are right. =
ssl/tls will be disabled by default and unless you have configured it =
will not be enabled (btw I didn't get any attachments from you)

could you explain what you are trying to do again? what is failing? you =
mentioned "why couldn't PURE-FTPD download the file that I was =
expecting?" what file?=20

I have few question:
a) are you able to start pure-ftpd and login to it (do you have virtual =
users or system users)
b) are you able to upload files to your ftp?
c) are you able to download files off the ftp?
d) get the individual who made the comment about 'secure' and 'normal' =
to elaborate on his comment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Li [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:27 PM
To: Pedram Ebrahimian-Diznabi; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [pureftpd] Question on PURE-FTP



Hi Pedram,

Thanks for the info.

But I still have some questions:

1. By reading http://www.pureftpd.org/README.TLS, it seems that =
PURE-FTPD
will disable the SSL/TLS by default i.e. my system should NOT have =
SSL/TLS
enabled (to the best of my knowledge) unless specifically done by =
someone.

2. Even with --tls=3D1/2 added, but without the SSL security =
certificate,
SSL/TLS should not be able to function as designed i.e. the PURE-FTPD =
will
function as non-secured.

3. With 1) and 2) being ruled out (is my assumption correct?), why =
couldn't
PURE-FTPD download the file that I was expecting? Do I miss the =
directory
path for the PURE-FTPD to locate the file? The config file doesn't =
include
this info. Is /var/ftp the default FTP directory for PURE-FTPD?

I've attached the PURE-FTPD config file, please take a look if I missed
anything.

Many thanks.

Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedram Ebrahimian-Diznabi [mailto:[email protected]]=20
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:48 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [pureftpd] Question on PURE-FTP
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> When you talk about normal and secure only two things come to mind.
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> Normal: no encryption
> Secure: with encryption
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> Depending on how you have compiled PURE-FTPD you will have:
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> a) SSL/TLS encryption layer disabled (default)
> b) accepts both none encrypted and encrypted sessions
> c) only accepts SSL/TLS sessions
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> from what you have mentioned, you may have compiled PURE-FTPD=20
> with (--with-tls)
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> and you are running PURE-FTPD with (--tls=3D2)
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> if this is so, you can fix the problem by running PURE-FTPD=20
> with --tls=3D1 or 0 (http://www.pureftpd.org/README.TLS for more info)
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> or if you are running PURE-FTPD with the config file=20
> (/usr/local/etc/pure-ftpd.config) Scroll down, and change the=20
> TLS 		2
> to
> TLS		0 or 1 (review the above page)
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> I hope that helped, I was unclear as to what you meant by=20
> normal I only assumed you meant this.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Li [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:23 PM
> To: 'DervishD'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [pureftpd] Question on PURE-FTP
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> Hi Folks,
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> First of all, thanks for the reply.
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> I got the PURE-FTPD set up and somebody told me that one of=20
> our devices only supports "normal" login and file transfer vs=20
> the "secure" way. So unless I could find a way to change the=20
> PURE-FTPD to "normal" category, I would not be able to=20
> continue my work with the PURE-FTPD.=20
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> (I've sent out email to the person who used the terms and=20
> haven't got reply yet. Here is the excerpt which the "normal"=20
> and "secure" categories were first mentioned: "The login and=20
> file transfer is divided into two categories ..secure and normal.")
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> Please let me know if this helps to clarify.
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> I'm going through RFC959 to see if the document can shed some light.
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> Thanks again for the help.
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> Jim
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DervishD [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:05 PM
> > To: Jim Li
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [pureftpd] Question on PURE-FTP
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> >     Hi Jim :)
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> >  * Jim Li <[email protected]> dixit:
> > > Could anyone help me on if PURE-FTPD supports "normal" mode
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> > > "secure" mode?
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> >     I don't know what you mean with "normal" and "secure"=20
> > mode. Can you ellaborate on that? Probably there's a way of using=20
> > "normal" mode in pure-ftpd (although it may involve=20
> patching), but I=20
> > need to know what do you mean by "normal"
> > and "secure" modes ;)
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