If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet.
James
--- "F. Kooman" fkooman@bromstraat.net wrote:
On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:49, James Harrison wrote:
You have a lot of faith in your firewall setup.
Why have a firewall rule to stop an anonymous someone ftping into the
machine
when you can either disable ftp altogether or stop that anonymous someone accessing the system and only allow known trusted users in.
Allowing trusted users in is even worse than allowing anonymous users (plain text authentication) in short: you shouldn't use ftp at all...
Fran�ois
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