what to do when you've been rooted

Kevin Jamieson derf at sonic.net
Sun Jan 21 13:34:03 PST 2001


> That'd be OK for a desktop computer. But this is a remote machine that
> services a few users and needs to have normal services.
> 
> I don't care about anonymous ftp, but how else am I(and a couple of users)
> supposed to get files from the machine(conveniently)?
> 
> I've always considered an ftp daemon to be a neccessary part of a base
> install. If wu-ftpd has been fixed I don't see why I shouldn't use it,
> unless there's something else I should know about it. If there is, please
> tell me!

I'm sure most of the people here will likely say 'scp' in place of ftping
files from a machine - but, if this is a user box ftp is most likely
expected.  I think Proftpd was mentioned before as an alternate to wu.

Derf



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