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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FTP with authentication to RADIUS
>1) many versions of FTP make you system vulnerable to root cracks. ...which are problems that need to be fixed. if you know of any... >2) There is NO way to run FTP in a SSH tunnel because it uses dynamic port >assignments. well...that's not entirely true. you can tunnel the command channel, just not the data channel. >3) FTP logins are plain-text. sure, which is why you tunnel them via ssh, or use ipsec. actually...if you use ipsec, you can get the data protected as well. >For sharing files, with anonymous users, HTTP is much better (see: >http://files.dnso.net) for sharing files with anonymous users, i'll always be using anonftp. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| [email protected] * "ah! i see you have the internet [email protected] (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" [email protected] * "information is power -- share the wealth."
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