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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:11:14 -0800
From:      "Mahlon E. Smith" <mahlon-dated-1048446675.de04e6@martini.nu>
To:        "Defryn, Guy" <G.P.Defryn@massey.ac.nz>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp best practices
Message-ID:  <20030318191114.GI29978@martini.nu>
In-Reply-To: <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F48B1FF@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz>
References:  <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F48B1FF@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz>

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003, Defryn, Guy wrote:
> One thing I would like to prevent is the visibility of the config files
> in the directory. I tried setting the shell to nonexistent but ftp does
> not seem to allow that.


Another option is to use pureftpd with the -x and -X flags.  This
won't prevent the files from being visible, but it will prevent any
tampering via ftp.

-Mahlon


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