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Major help needed here.
Paladin9:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
I have Slackware myself, and I use apachectl start to run Apache.
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looks like apachectl start is the winner. how do i run and configure the ftp daemon?
TheQuirk:
I don't mean to sound like a dick, but, have you tried using Google? Here's a link that gave me a bunch of good results.
mobrien_12:
My $0.02
Don't start an FTP server. Not on linux, not on Windows.
Some bastard sniffs your plaintext password over an insecure network and bad things will happen.
Instead use OpenSSH. It has a secure ftp (sftp) subsystem. You can install the open-source psftp client on your windows machines.
Paladin9:
quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
My $0.02
Don't start an FTP server. Not on linux, not on Windows.
Some bastard sniffs your plaintext password over an insecure network and bad things will happen.
Instead use OpenSSH. It has a secure ftp (sftp) subsystem. You can install the open-source psftp client on your windows machines.
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I am not worried about this. I am doing this on my network at home. Do you think my family knows what packet sniffing is? And as for the outside world, people are first going to have to realize that I exist and that I have and ftp site running from my ip before they will do anything to it. And even if someone does find out about it, they are going to need to know what port I run it on becuase it is not 21.
flap:
If your machine is open to the outside world you have to expect people to find it. Crackers looking for vulnerable machines just scan random ip ranges; they don't necessarily go after specific machines. And if ftp is the only service you want open to the outside world, you should make sure every other port is firewalled off.
[ March 01, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]
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