Re: FTP with authentication to RADIUS

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

> 1) many versions of FTP make you system vulnerable to root cracks.

...which are problems that need to be fixed.  if you know of any...

> 2) There is NO way to run FTP in a SSH tunnel because it uses dynamic port
> assignments.

well...that's not entirely true.  you can tunnel the command channel,
just not the data channel.

> 3) FTP logins are plain-text.

sure, which is why you tunnel them via ssh, or use ipsec.
actually...if you use ipsec, you can get the data protected as well.

> For sharing files, with anonymous users, HTTP is much better (see:
> http://files.dnso.net)

for sharing files with anonymous users, i'll always be using anonftp.

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