Re: big increase in ftp scanning

[Jose Nazario <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Ian Eure wrote:

> somewhat OT, can someone recommend a more secure ftpd? it seems like
> almost all of the ftp daemons had (have?) bad security problems.

there has been a port of the OpenBSD-ftpd to non-OpenBSD systems. it
suports PAM on Linux, or can bypass that for normal authentication
schemes. it supports chroot() for the anonmous user etc. i have not tried
it on anything but Linux.

http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD

get the latest version, it had a string format vulnerability akin to the
BSD FTPd.

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