[Sussex] FTP - Fedora core 3

Jon Fautley jfautley at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 08:18:14 UTC 2005


Ronan Chilvers wrote:

> Great again!!  However, I don't think firewalling is really necessary
> if its a trusted internal system, ie: not internet facing.  Good idea to
> setup an anonymous FTP area maybe to restrict where FTPers can go, but a
> firewall sounds a bit like overkill, really.

That is totally and utterly dependant upon the environment in which the 
system is installed.

Just because it's sitting on the corporate LAN, doesn't mean it's a 
'trusted' environment.

Jon
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