Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, if it was released in the last two weeks or so, then thats the one! :) On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 08:48:49PM -0500, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it >

RE: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
That was fast, thanks for the response !!! > -Original Message- > From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 9:49 PM > To: Seth R Arnold > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: FTP servers and security help > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it > might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due > to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in p

RE: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Paul McHale
9 8:20 PM > To: Debian-User > Subject: Re: FTP servers and security help > > > Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of > software, it > might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on > bugtraq is due > to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd.

Re: FTP servers and security help

1999-09-06 Thread Seth R Arnold
Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the de