Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:33:13 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP in Root after Apache is installed Message-ID: <20020710233313.GA39209@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <005301c227fc$3f9a16a0$23b9fea9@ab.hsia.telus.net> References: <LEEGJHDFDIEGNMNMDFNDGEHNGIAA.jacco@lionsoft.xs4all.nl> <005301c227fc$3f9a16a0$23b9fea9@ab.hsia.telus.net>
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:26:15AM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote:
> I can't seem to ftp or telnet from root anymore after I installed apache. Is
> this for security?
Coincidence. Having or not having apache installed has no bearing on
the ability to use other services from your machine. You probably
changed something in your root environment while you were working on
apache, and that is what's causing the problem. Try logging out and
back in again. If that doesn't fix it, how about giving us a little
more to work with? Like what exactly you see on the screen when you
try (and fail) to do whatever it is.
Oh yeah --- standard security procedures lecture no. 3: Don't do stuff
as root which you don't need to do as root. In particular, not
telneting or ftping as root is a pretty good idea. It's too easy to
suffer a momentary lapse and end up sending important passwords or
sensitive data over the wire in clear text. Besides, all the
cognoscenti are using ssh nowadays... but you've heard all this
before.
Matthew
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