Re: FTP security on *nix

From: Devdas Bhagat (devdas@worldgatein.net)
Date: 08/08/01 

From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas@worldgatein.net>
To: "Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie" <themac@iinet.net.au>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: FTP security on *nix
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:14:38 +0530
Message-Id: <01080812161904.15527@office.interoffice>

On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Nicholas & Anthony McKenzie spewed into the ether:
> Hi group..
>
> Could anyone shed any light to any services, devices (links) etc that will
> or can be installed on the Unix box recieving the FTP data....
See stunnel, or zebedee . http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/
(Assuming you are running a ftp server for uploads).
> Correct me if I'm wrong but you can (can you?) use SSH and TCP-Wrappers????
ssh does support tcpwrappers /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny

> Does anything else come to mind that anyone has used? Any checklists?
scp? rsync over ssh

Devdas Bhagat 

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