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Re: safest FTP and TELNET options?



> From: Derek Sivers <bsd@cdbaby.com>
> 
> Ok - as much as I hate to - I *have* to turn on FTP and TELNET for a 
> virtual webhosting thing I'm doing for people who don't have SSH, SFTP or 
> RSYNC, etc...
> 
> So . . . what's the safest FTP and telnet ports on OpenBSD these days?
> Or - for anyone else doing web hosting on OpenBSD - what's your approach?

I don't allow FTP to my webserver at all, or user connections. 

We strongly encourage scp/sftp to our staging server, which the 
users can puttheir stuff on, and check it, then we copy the data
onto the production server for them.