Thanks Guys, I will follow your advice apt-get
remove proftpd
gone!
Your advice is greatly appreiciated.
Cheers...
On 2008-11-02 12:19, William
Anderson wrote:
> Robert Leverington wrote:
> > Hello
Cliff,
> >
> > ludo1960@??? wrote:
> >> Just to
let you know that after a re-install everything went spiffingly!
> >
> > Fantastic.
> >
> >> I've installed Proftpd
(from SSH! Hee hee, no more webmin for me!)
> >
> > I
recommend you try to use SFTP, there are several good clients
> >
available on Windows (e.g. WinSCP) and on Linux desktops the file
> >
managers usually support it out of the box. It is much more secure and
> > generally requires no additional configuration as it uses the same
> > system as SSH.
>
> Couldn't agree more; I'd remove
proftpd immediately unless you have a
> pressing need for an ftp daemon to
be running (sudo apt-get remove
> proftpd if you're on debian/ubuntu) and
use scp/sftp instead. Don't run
> services which authenticate and
perform data transfer in the clear when
> you can do it all encrypted
instead.
>
> -n
>
>