From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 21 6:30:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sai.co.za (mail.sai.co.za [196.33.40.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C35737B503 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 06:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davew@sai.co.za) Received: from dave ([196.33.40.17]) by mail.sai.co.za (SBMail MTA v2.11(1142) SMTPD32) with ESMTP id AA9376; for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:29:36 0200 (South Africa Standard Time) From: "David Wilson" To: "Michael O Shea" Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Subject: RE: Secure FTP server, as secure as possible ? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:30:35 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org lol, I thought that would happen, my mistake ;-) When I mean secure I mean... secure not in the sense of "secure shell" or "Secure sockets layer" or anything that requires enryption.But secure in terms of being able to withstand DOS attacks, general exploits etc. Thanks for the info anyways. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael O Shea Sent: 21 February 2001 11:41 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure FTP server, as secure as possible ? >Hi guys, howzit going ? > >A client wants us to configure a FreeBSD server as an FTP server only. >The clients that will connect will have static IP addresses. >I can use tcp wrappers, and ipfw to do firewalling and closing of all access >except to tcp port 21 from static IP clients. >What other security options can I look at to make this an extremely secure >FTP server ? >Thanks. > > >Kindest regards >David Wilson >The S.A Internet >You are contradicting yourself. FTP is by nature not secure. Use scftp instead. -- Micheal O Shea ----------------------------------------------------- com-o-tronic ag Micheal O Shea, Systems Engineer Gewerbepark CH-5506 Mägenwil E-Mail micheal@com4u.ch Voice: +41 62 887 3734 Fax: +41 62 896 1133 Internet: http://www.com4u.ch http://www.ehitline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message