Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

[Corey Sheldon]

this is the proverbal security vs. convenience  issue safety unfortunately
isn't convenient


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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/24/2014 01:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>  Am 24.03.2014 12:57, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot:
>>
>>> Le Sam 22 mars 2014 01:20, Miloslav Trmač a écrit :
>>>
>>>  The RHEL documentation, apart from fully describing the abilities,
>>>> specifically describes two uses: a ftpd banner
>>>>
>>>
>>> Surprisingly, ftp is still widely used entreprise-side, because ssh is
>>> giving too much access
>>>
>>
>> no, it is easy to restrict ssh to ONLY sftp and chroot and with
>> simple bind-mounts you can completly replace ftp, doing that here
>> in production over years with 3 simple scripts
>>
>
> It's still very difficult to securely process uploaded files under a
> different user account.  Some SFTP clients set restrictive permissions on
> upload, and the OpenSSH implementation does not allow to bypass that.
>
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