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From: "nick G" <nick@hkcamp.gotdns.com>
To: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@bellsouth.net>,
	"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
	<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Proftpd question
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:29:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000e01c46b41$4f5d5720$cc00a8c0@nickysp4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004501c46afa$ed27e700$6500a8c0@h2c8f0>

Go ahead and do it!  It's ok, ProFTPD is secure.  They say VSFTPD is better,
but I have no clue.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy@bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: Proftpd question


> Hi,
> Got it working.  I just moved the files to /home/ftp and made a symlink in
> /var/www.  Is it ok from a security standpoint to open up ftp to the
outside
> world?  I have an unofficial mirror of the unofficial Dectalk archive, an
> archive of Dectalk as well as several other synths singing, performing
> skits, and all sorts of other weirdness.  Would it be ok to allow the
> outside world to access this via ftp?  They can already access it via
http.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <
> jbahm@pcdesk.net>
>
> To: "Jayson Smith" <
> ratguy@bellsouth.net>
>
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 1:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Proftpd question
>
> > Well, that depends. If the allow symlinks option is set in apache, then
> this will work. . I assume you are trying to access these files in
/var/www
> via anonymous ftp right? I can't remember what your doing now. If you are
> trying to do this, why not set the anonymous account to access /var/www.
If
> you did that, the chroot would be to that directory and you wouldn't have
a
> problem.
> >
> > --
> > Joseph C. Lininger
> >
> jbahm@pcdesk.net
> > Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please lieve in
> > tact if quoting me in a reply.
> > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
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>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Jayson Smith
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Sina Bahram
     [not found]   ` <000701c46958$85dcdfe0$6500a8c0@h2c8f0>
     [not found]     ` <20040714045033.GA5416@romuald.net.eu.org>
     [not found]       ` <001501c46970$ad2ede00$6500a8c0@h2c8f0>
     [not found]         ` <20040714173826.GA13425@romuald.net.eu.org>
           ` Jayson Smith
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Jayson Smith
                 ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Joseph C. Lininger
     [not found]                   ` <000f01c46ac9$d463d660$6500a8c0@h2c8f0>
     [not found]                     ` <Pine.WNT.4.60.0407152319290.200@merlin>
                       ` Jayson Smith
                         ` nick G [this message]
                           ` Joseph C. Lininger
                         ` Joseph C. Lininger
             ` Joseph C. Lininger
 ` Shaun Oliver
   ` Jayson Smith
 ` Joseph C. Lininger
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407161247580.900-100000@localhost.localdomain>
 ` Jayson Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
 proftpd question Gregory Nowak
 ` Trevor Astrope

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