Re: vsftpd.conf

["Charles R. Anderson" <cra WPI EDU>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:09:44PM -0700, James Harrison wrote:
> --- "F. Kooman" <fkooman bromstraat net> wrote:
> > Allowing trusted users in is even worse than allowing anonymous users
> > (plain text authentication) in short: you shouldn't use ftp at all...
> If youre going to be that paranoid, dont connect the machine to the internet.

Not really...I think he makes a very valid point that allowing trusted
users to login via FTP is worse than allowing anonymous users FTP
access.  FTP should only ever be used in anonymous mode, like HTTP
servers are mostly used for.  If you don't what that, don't enable the
service.