Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:46:51 -0400 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Bart Silverstrim" <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>, "Andri Kok" <freebsd_list@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FTPD & SSHD server Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGEEEPFPAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <780463BE-AD1A-11D8-B60B-000A956D2452@chrononomicon.com>
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I think you are confused about difference between ssh and FTPD. FTPD is enabled in inetd.conf. This FTP software gives FTP protocol access the home directory of the person logging in. No account on the FBSD box no FTP access. When logging in using FTP the id/pw is passed over the internet as clear text that can be harvested with a lot of effort and cost. This is normally restricted to private Lan use only, IE; not used over the public internet. FTP uses port 21 for control channel and 20 for data channel in active mode and some high port number for data channel in passive mode. Second security problem in using FTP for public internet access is you have to leave all the high port number open for inbound traffic in your firewall and this is an very big security hole. For these reasons the common practice is not to use FTP for public internet access to your system. An public accessible anonymous FTP server has special directory setting to protect against users accessing other directories. Ssh on the other hand is completely different. It has it's own FTP protocol which uses the ssh port 22 for control and data. To use ssh for remote public internet access to your FBSD box you need ssh enabled in rc.conf and inbound rule for port 22 in your firewall. Ssh has it's own built in command for FTP transfer. Ssh logs into id/pw of account on FBSD box. To ssh and ssh/ftp from windows box to FBSD box you need to use ssh client program on windows. Search the questions archives for posts about windows ssh clients for where to download free ones from. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bart Silverstrim Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:37 PM To: Andri Kok Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTPD & SSHD server On May 23, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Andri Kok wrote: > Hi Bart, > > Thx for the reply. The problem that I had from windows was "connection > timeout". When I try to ssh to my BSD box, it prompts the login name, > than it hangs till it finally get connection time out. The same goes > with ftp and telnet. There is a prompt that you enter a username to, then it just hangs instead of giving a password prompt? Most definitely odd... > Regarding the error logs, which ones should i check? he path would be > nice =) And thx for your suggestion, I'll try to do that as soon as I > have time (still got assignments to do ;) thx again -) error logs should all be in the directory /var/log. Try a connection, and once it errors out, do a tail on any files that have their timestamps updated indicating that they were just written to at the time of your connection attempt...they might have info that could be of help. -Bart _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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