ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Francesco Tapparo
Some user of a system I administer want to ftp in my system. The problem is that with ftp all the passowrd are in clear and I fear someone can sniff the and use them to ssh in my system. the majority of the windows users don't have ssh (at least a good ssh) so the hint use ssh is not practicable

Re: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:01:04AM +0100, Francesco Tapparo wrote: Some user of a system I administer want to ftp in my system. The problem is that with ftp all the passowrd are in clear and I fear someone can sniff the and use them to ssh in my system. the majority of the windows users

RE: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Jason Mogavero
Sr. Network Engineer Inflow, Inc (303)942-2828 -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ftp and passwords On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:01:04AM +0100

Re: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Jason Mogavero wrote: Not to pick a nit, but secure passwords aren't even a speedbump if you're being sniffed. (though they ARE good practice) quite true. what i was really suggesting is make them use passwords 20 times more obfuscated then you

RE: ftp and passwords

2001-01-24 Thread Jason Mogavero
. #include evil-laugh.c Jason Mogavero Sr. Network Engineer Inflow, Inc (303)942-2828 -Original Message- From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:38 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ftp and passwords On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10

WU-FTP Shadow Passwords

1998-05-07 Thread GBD
I installed Debian 1.3.1 (kernel 2.0.29) on a machine Iintend to use a s a public FTP/Web server. When I ran the install program, I selected to enable Shadow passwords. I also installed the package WU-FTP as an alternative to the standard ftp daemon. NOW...real users cannot log in via FTP, and