Re: Anonymous sftp

From: Akop Pogosian (akopps+usenet@ocf.berkeley.edu)
Date: 08/22/02 

From: Akop Pogosian <akopps+usenet@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:22:53 +0000 (UTC)

In comp.sys.sun.admin Dr. David Kirkby <davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Our system admins at work, where Suns are used, have disabled anonymous
> ftp, as it was a cause of a lot of security problems. It does however
> present some problems in transferring files.

What security problems are they trying to prevent by disabling
anonymous ftp? Note, running the Solaris 8 and older in.ftpd only for
anonymous ftp does have some problems but you can replace it with a
more robust package like proftpd. I haven't looked at Solaris 9 ftpd
yet. 

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Akop Pogosian

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