[Gllug] ftp security

John Hearns john.hearns at framestore.co.uk
Mon Oct 22 16:37:14 UTC 2001


On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 16:57, Paul Brazier wrote:
> 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.
> 
>
Use Proftpd   http://www.proftpd.org

You won't regret it.
Proftpd is written with security in mind.
It uses a configuration file with a similar syntax to Apache.

I would make sure all users are put in a chrooted environment.


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