On Thursday 19 October 2000 17:23, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

transfer. However be advised, that ftp sends passwords in plain text over the wire! Anybody could sniff this traffic and break into this account.

So, he (we all) should be using ssh and, in particular, scp to transfer the files. scp is the command line "secure" ftp-equivalent, the only one I am aware of... alternatives? Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16 KDE 2.0 RC2 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

On 19 Oct 00, at 16:29, Linux News User wrote:

Hi is there any doc about how to setup ssh or ssh2 under SuSE 6.4 and/or SuSE 7.x ?

Download both packages, unpack, run the ./configure in the unpacked directory, than make, and make install. I recommend to those steps first with ssh1 and then with ssh2. That way your ssh will be configured to be compatible with both versions by the install. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

transfer. However be advised, that ftp sends passwords in plain text over the wire! Anybody could sniff this traffic and break into this account.

How would it be possible to force a ftp account and/or connection to use SSH-only for a secured session? Thanks! Christopher Reimer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

* Robert Copelan (robertc@mindspring.com) [001022 02:01]:

We need to also keep the FTP user from changing to such directories as /bin , /etc. Tried the rooting suggestions in the MAN pages but then don't seem to be able to list what's in the FTP directories. Any ideas?

If you use a chroot environment, you have to copy all necessary libraries and tools to that chroot environment as those in the regular environment aren't accessable from inside the chroot environment. For example, here's the contents of the sample ftp environment that gets created when you choose to install that package: /usr/local/ftp/msgs/msg.dead /usr/local/ftp/msgs/welcome.msg /usr/local/ftp/usr/bin/ls /usr/local/ftp/usr/bin/gzip /usr/local/ftp/etc/passwd /usr/local/ftp/etc/group /usr/local/ftp/lib/libnss_files.so.2 /usr/local/ftp/lib/libc.so.6 /usr/local/ftp/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /usr/local/ftp/bin/ls /usr/local/ftp/bin/tar /usr/local/ftp/bin/compress Ahh yes, the FTP directories have, of course, also to be in that directory tree as symlinks obviously won't (and can't) work. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany #define NINODE 50 /* number of in core inodes */ #define NPROC 30 /* max number of processes */ -- Version 7 UNIX for PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq