hosts.deny & hosts.allow will control access by domain or IP
Make sure packages are up to date, FTP has a habit of showing exploits over
time
Read about chrooting......it may apply for you....., not sure I like the
last option :-) giving users acc is like a compromise anyways :-)
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On 26/01/00 at 11:35 Robert Fausey wrote:
>I need to determine if it is possible to secure inbound FTP on machines
>running NIS. People who need to upload files, University faculty and
>some users could have local accounts created so that they can upload
>files. Is there any major security issues with this? Another idea would
>be a machine determine to inbound FTP with only local accounts and if it
is
>compromised so what, just reinstall the OS.
>
>
>Rob Fausey.
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