intrusion detected

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 09:36:14 UTC 2005


On 11/08/05, MrKnisely <mrknisely at mrknisely.is-a-geek.org> wrote:

> What is worg with running FTPd?  I know usernames and passwords are sent
> plaintext, but what is the issue with simply having the daemon running?
> So long as you don't publish it to the internet and FTP from the
> outside, I don't see a security issue here.

There are just better things to use than FTP, that's all. I've seen
nice pointy-clicky
win32 apps for talking SFTP, so why not use that?

The OP didn't mention he was firewalled off, or that he wasn't using it.




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