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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:59:19 -0500
From:      Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
To:        Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Securing FTP and SSH documentation
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000725155833.00b0a7f0@mail.utexas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251258350.5286-100000@q.closedsrc.org>

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OK, sorry if I missed something, but couldn't you just not enable 
telnet?  Comment it out from inetd.conf and only run ftp and ssh.


Oscar

At 01:02 PM 7/25/00 -0700, Linh Pham, you wrote:

>I was wondering if there is any way to setup a user account that can FTP
>into their ``home'' directory but cannot Telnet into their account to get
>shell access.
>
>My company has clients that need to FTP files to us for data processing
>and currently use (now, don't flame me) Windows NT 4.0 and IIS 4.0. I
>definitely want to reduce any security risks and holes by moving the FTP
>folders and logins to a BSD boxen.
>
>Also, is there any decent documentation available for somewhat newbies
>like me on OpenSSH?
>
>Thank you!
>
>// Linh Pham
>// http://closedsrc.org
>
>
>
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