Anonymous FTP Account
January 4, 2006 Posted by KP
Several months ago, I switched to pure-ftpd from proftpd for my Linux VPS and FreeBSD server, but I didn’t test the anonymous login on Linux, just found it’s enabled by default!! Fortunately, it wasn’t abused. If someone used it for video download, I could face a big bill for bandwidth usage. Very lucky.
I did test it on my FreeBSD server, and got the error message “Unable to set up secure anonymous FTP”. But now I realized this message might be from FreeBSD system other than pure-ftpd, because I got a different message on Linux after I disabled anonymous login: “This is a private system – No anonymous login”.
Anyway, don’t take anything for granted, a simple test is the best way to avoid silly error like this.
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