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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.023356.29170@visix.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 02:33:56 GMT
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In article <1335@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> robt@mummy.agsm.unsw.oz.au (Rob
Trevor) writes:

   And please don't start now...for security reasons I would hate it.

There are number of improvements to NCSA FTP that would help its
security, actually :).  I did some of them when I worked for InterCon,
such as allowing both "users" and anonymous FTP, with any user
(including ANONYMOUS) optionally restricted to a particular folder and
its descendants.  This gives you approximately the same security as
the UNIX FTP server, which seems to be enough for most people.  It also
would not be hard to do additional things, such as only allowing incoming
FTP sessions from a particular set of hosts or IP subnets.

A warning to anyone who decides to dig into the NCSA FTP server, though:
the code is a little twisted (to be polite :)).  Be prepared to study it
for a while before you start to understand what's going on...

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