From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 11:11:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042F337B404 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from happymaggot.stinkymeat.net (12-224-36-78.client.attbi.com [12.224.36.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9917643F85 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mahlon-dated-1048446675.de04e6@martini.nu) Received: (qmail 88661 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 19:11:15 -0000 Received: from home.martini.nu (HELO 12-224-36-78.client.attbi.com) (forkbomb@192.168.72.1) by happymaggot.stinkymeat.net with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 19:11:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:11:14 -0800 To: "Defryn, Guy" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp best practices Message-ID: <20030318191114.GI29978@martini.nu> References: <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F48B1FF@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LQ77YLfPrO/qF/pM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9EA1E9775D329F4CB45B259FCA43F79F48B1FF@its-xchg3.massey.ac.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2, up 17:49 From: "Mahlon E. Smith" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LQ77YLfPrO/qF/pM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu ........................................................................ If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. You're the sucker. --LQ77YLfPrO/qF/pM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE+d29SwL5r+zYGsmcRAhM+AKCURFcXTK06bpxiRc6RkmAZEO4q2gCfW6lG BGOH9NeG+djDoO9JWgMmVJU= =4T9y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQ77YLfPrO/qF/pM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message