[PLUG] Re: linux web server setup

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Wed Feb 25 12:42:01 UTC 2004


> From: Jeff Schwaber <freyley at gmx.net>
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:13, Alex Chally wrote:
> > On Feb 24, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Daniel Logghe wrote:

> > > As for ftp, don't. Unless you have a really pressing need to use ftp 
> > > there are better options. FTP is horribly insecure, it's also 
> > > generally slower than HTTP. Learn all about SSH and the things you can 
> > > do with it including scp and sftp. And for serving files to the 
> > > general public do it through Apache.

> > I am working on the project with him, and we would really like to have 
> > ftp up and running, despite the problems with it.
> 
> proftpd
> 
> apt-get install proftpd
> 
> http://www.proftpd.org/

proftpd might all the control you want, but it reintroduces the orignal
problem in a bigger way. proftpd has a rather bad track record with
respect to security holes. Though not even close to IE, I've seen too
many alerts with proftpd.


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