On 23-Aug-01 Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
Hi,
On 22 Aug 2001, at 11:55, Boris Lorenz wrote:
I disagree. Most people (read: admins) who had their first contact with Linux a couple of months or one year ago are happy to be able to set up ftp or mail servers at all, there are only a few who really care about security. If reality would be like you suggest we wouldn't have so much trouble with security issues I suppose.
That is partly true. But if you install the first server, you need to choose one. You are better off if you are looking for a secure one (like the original poster seemed to do). What has this poster from this discussion? More different opinions than he knew about before! So he is still left with looking at the homepages and other (security) ressources to find a good answer for his question, should he need to use wu-ftpd, how can he be shure it is secure on the long term after this discussion, where some people said it is not? I think he was better off with a list of available servers and a short description as well as links to the homepages of the servers.
If that really is your opinion, why should we set up and use mailing lists at all? If everything you can come up with is a basically uncommented list of links to some sites, and a generous "make up your own choice now and RTFM" sort of line, you won't help "newbies" or other users/admins at all. Security neither is some point-and-click type of thing, nor a matter of a couple of links, as useful as they may be. AFAIR the original post of this thread was about experiences of other users/admins with ftpd's and their security issues, not the request of your favourite bookmarks. Btw., my lengthy utterances which you quoted have been enclosed by <rant>...</rant>, which means that I wrote them out-of-line to provide a little more background. I have put in a suggestion of what ftpd to use in may mail as well.
mike
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Boris Lorenz