From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 23:53:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA23302 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA23297 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA23348; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 06:50:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 06:50:37 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Robert Watson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure anonymous FTP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been playing with anonftpd, which I found at ftp.qmail.org. It's fairly restrictive, and has no provisions for uploading files. It also does not run as root... Charles On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Robert Watson wrote: > > I wish to set up an anonymous ftp server that only serves anonymous users > -- i.e., it does not need to authenticate users using passwords ever, and > would live entirely chroot'd, hopefully. This would minimize the chances > of attacks using anonymous ftp; is there a daemon available that would fit > into this nitch or do I need to roll my own? > > Thanks, > > > Robert N Watson > > Junior, Logic+Computation, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > Network Administrator, SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > robert@fledge.watson.org rwatson@safeport.com http://www.watson.org/~robert/ >