Ideas for Securing my FTP Server

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Patterson <mike.patterson at unb.ca>

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:17:39 
To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List<pauldotcom at pdc-mail.pauldotcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Ideas for Securing my FTP Server


Robin Wood wrote on 3/22/09 4:48 PM:
> I've only skimmed some of this conversation but OpenBSD is mainly
> designed as a server OS so really shouldn't be running gnome and
> probably not even X.

Hmpf, I used it as a desktop for a year or so, going on a decade ago now
- I'm sure it's much more usable now than it was then too.  Not GNOME
though, WindowMaker.  :)

> If you are building a server then for security you want as little
> installed and running on it as you can get away with. If you need to
> use a GUI to install or set something up then you may be best doing it
> on a test machine and then copying the config files across to your
> server rather than filling your server with GUIs.

But this anyway.  Even avoid putting a compiler on, if you can.

Mike aka kraigus

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