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Subject: Re: ftpd security issue ?
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On 12/5/2011 2:48 PM, Xin Li wrote:
> 
> Currently no (I thought you were in the cc list in my discussion with
> kib@?).  My initial plan was simply rejecting .so's with wrong
> permissions but in the discussion turns out that would not be
> sufficient and we have also considered other ways to do it, e.g. have
> a wrapper where one can disable them completely.  I have not a full
> solution yet as the change would touch quite a lot of things in the
> base system...

Hi Xin,
	yes, I am on the cc list. I vaguely understand the complexity of the
issue enough to see its not an easy fix.  In the mean time, I was just
looking for ways to protect the few boxes I have that run proftpd.
Right now running with "rootrevoke on" seems to be the safest, but that
has the side effect of killing active connections.

	---Mike


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