Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:25:46 +0300 (EAT) From: <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@collinsworth.info> Cc: Carroll Kong <damascus@home.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fwd: Vendors For WU-FTPD Please Read Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111202023100.28220-100000@sanyu1.sanyutel.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111201104060.988-100000@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu>
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> Agreed, a few less is always better than a few more. But applying > security updates is part of our job as sysadmins. If you have lots > of boxen to look after, you need to automate the update process. > There are various approaches to this. I like cfengine. We're now > experimenting with PXE and auto reinstalls. There are other good > approaches besides these. rdist is an interesting approach for keeping multiple machine upto date. on the note about ftp daemons. I hav been using vsftpd for some time and I am yet to hear of any security bugs. I like the simple way in which one can chroot users to their home directories by simply putting the user name in a file. Noah. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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