Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:26:45 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, William Nunn <yorkie123@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remotely Exploitable telnetd bug Message-ID: <20010816002645.I330@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <002501c1256a$e846ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:16:03AM -0700 References: <20010815103807.D47417@sunbay.com> <002501c1256a$e846ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:16:03AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru@FreeBSD.ORG] > >Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:38 AM > >To: Greg Lehey > >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Ryan Thompson; William Nunn; > >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Remotely Exploitable telnetd bug [snip] > >There are security extensions exist for FTP, see RFC2228 for details. > >lukemftpd (currently in contrib/lukemftpd) is going to support these, > >AFAIK. > > > > It's going to be many years before even a quarter of the FTP clients in use > out there support these. We can all hope and pray that FTP dies the slow and agonizing death it deserves before we bother to hack security into this fundamentally screwed up protocol. Unfortunately, I think FTP will last as long as TCP/IP does. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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