Re: [PLUG] ProFTP on Cobalt Raq3

["W. Chris Shank" <shankwc999@yahoo.com>]

i appreciate the advice. i'm well aware of scp and use it myself. however, 
the client want to run webtrends reports himself. he's been warned, and if 
the box comprimised - he'll have to pay for getting it back together.

so far - i found that removing the welcome message from being displayed at 
ftp login has eliminated this problem. looks to be a firewall issue with size 
of the data being sent - ie:lengthy welcome message.

On Monday 18 February 2002 08:29 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:44:56PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > From: "W. Chris Shank" <shankwc999@yahoo.com>
> > To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:44:56 -0500
> > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2]
> > Subject: [PLUG] ProFTP on Cobalt Raq3
> >
> > Having an issue with ProFTP running on a cobalt raq3 appliance (Redhat
> > 6.2 or 7). I cannot FTP in as a regular user, only as the admin user
> > (like root but less destructive) from behind a firewall. From home I can
> > ftp as both, but from firewall, only admin. Is there a directive that
> > would control which ports are used? This has me very perplexed.
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > -chris
>
> Chris,
>
> I use a similar appliance class server (Cobalt RaQ4) and have recently had
> a breach in security that almost totally compromised my box due to my
> ignorance of how easy it is to sniff an unencrypted packet for passwords.
>
> Since then I've been using scp religiously and not only is it more secure
> but it also saves time rather than having to jockey files around.
>
> To use you'll need to install the openSSH package (depends on OpenSSL)
> to your local machine - it should already be installed on your RaQ3,
> if not www.cobalt.com should have links to the .pkg files required.
>
> The syntax for usage is:
>
> scp file username@yourdomain.com:	<--- places the file in user's home dir
> scp -r dirname username@yourdomain.com:    <--- resurssive directory in
> home dir scp file username@yourdomain.com:../../web/    <--- places the
> file up two levels in web
>
>
> Hope this helps...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Time
>
>
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