[Gllug] ftp security

[Paul Brazier]

I'm helping to set up a box with RH7.1 which will (amongst other things)
give remote users ftp access to their home directories only. I read
somewhere that wu-ftpd is insecure.

Is this just because ftp is unencrypted and thus passwords & logins are
transmitted in cleartext for sniffers to pick up? In this case don't all
ftp servers suffer from the same problem? Or are some ftp servers better
than others for security for different reasons?

I don't have control over what the clients use so ssh etc. isn't an
option (except for administrators).

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Paul Brazier
Cosmos UK 


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