From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 5:26: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE6537B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 05:25:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA10346; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:25:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14SfSn-0004MH-00 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:25:49 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:25:49 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <20010213142548.A16193@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bra@fsn.hu on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:14:55PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Attila! On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:14:55PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > >3. ftpd - Dodgy security? Doesn't seem to be used very much > > ftpd is my number one choice when it comes to security and good performance. > Hmm, the standard FreeBSD ftpd can run as a daemon. But how do you control > the number of active connections? With /etc/login.conf or something > similar resource control (number of running processes)? If you are not starting it from inetd (which can limit the number of concurrent connections, then IMHO it is a good idea to run it in chroot or in jail... otherwise I don't know. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message