[SunHELP] ftp chroot

[Tim Bell]

Do you really have to use wu-ftpd??? 

A couple days ago I set-up pure-ftpd in a matter of minutes (minus the
time it took to compile) with scores of virtual users all locked into
chroot environments (all of which are htdocs dirs). AND - this is only
my observation, but.., it seems to run faster than wu-ftpd. 

Selling point would be that it has no known exploits. (wait to be seen)

Check it out http://www.pureftpd.org 
Solaris docs http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/README.Solaris

Your friendly out of work SYSAD :/ 
Well not completely out of work... I made 60 bucks last week (but
frankly I believe I'm beginning to chafe)

timmy!
me-myself-and-i inc.
anytown, USA!

tim at menus.com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:18 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ftp chroot

The whole idea of a chroot() is to move the user away from your crucial
filesystem. Running a webserver in this directory may open some
vulnerabilities to your documents/configuration files.

The software vendor should have documentation on this setup. You can try
looking through http://docs.sun.com

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Rubin" <rubin at frell.org>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:53 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] ftp chroot


> anyone have a doc or guide for a sure-fire method of setting up
wu-ftpd in
> a chroot'ed environment in solaris (8)?
>
> also, if i chroot a filesysetm for ftp use, can i still use that
system as
> a document root for a webserver?
>
> alan
>
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