wu-ftpd - symlinks

[Nancy Sollars]

in response .. Yeah whatever Craig

tell me -- thats why SuSE Slackware and any other Decent distro of Linux
stopped putting Wu-ftp on their distro's cuz of its exceptional security ...

hmmm let me think ???  heh The answer is NO to the question

WU was removed from SuSE at Ver 7 & Slackware in favour of Pro ftpd
personally i use pureftp which is built with stack and bounds attack
checking .. thats local and remote exploit attack checking to everyone else.

Most exploits for linux daemons concern WU-FTPD its just not a safe package
to use.

just recently another alert for WU was released

as for my Muppet comment was just a comment i posted from a mail a friend of
mine sent about having a linux box online for less than a day running WU ftp
only to find it got rooted in less than a fee hours cuz of WU-FTP's bad
security.

...........

Nige

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd - symlinks


> Nancy Sollars wrote:
> >
> > im going to flame u for this but u should'nt be using Wu ftpd cuz it has
> > more holes than an English Tea bag .. please use either Pro-ftpd or
Pureftpd
> >
> > As most would have read from a post i made about my friend martin in
England
> > who ran a box with Wu on it - his exact comment was u would have to be a
> > muppet to use it ..
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lisa Winkler" <lmw@po.cwru.edu>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:37 PM
> > Subject: wu-ftpd - symlinks
> >
> > > Probably a dumb question.  I would like to symlink a directory under
my
> > > /home/ftp/pub.  I know this is possible - lots of sites do it.  But
wu-ftp
> > > doesn't recognize symlinks created by ln -s.  Is there something
special I
> > can
> > > do to get the link to work in wu-ftpd?
> > >
> ----
> I find this response to be offensive because it offers no help to the
> questioner and even worse, it suggests that the questioner is less than
> smart to use it. As is somewhat typical from a Nigel posting, it begs
> someone to defend a software package that he doesn't like. I'll pass on
> that endeavor except to say that some people curse the darkness and some
> people light a candle.
>
> symbolic links indeed work in wu-ftpd / you can see from
> <http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO> that they are used for the
> purposes of linking libraries.
>
> More than likely, it is a permissions problem but it may be affected by
> the chroot of a particular user. Try the link using a 'real' user and it
> will likely work. Check your folder/file permissions.
>
> Craig
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