Re[2]: safest FTP and TELNET options?

[Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net>]

 Far be it for me to plug something written for another operating
 system, but it does give some of the pointers you may need to
 as securely as possible in your situation, enable ftp and telnet.

 http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html

 Specifically, the 'Networking' and 'Networking II' sections.
 (only 'inetd', of 'Networking' is relevant).

Best Regards,

 Lee

Monday, 02 July 2001, you wrote:

DS> Thanks for the replies, so far.

DS> But yes unfortunately I really do need to turn on regular old FTP and TELNET.

DS> We do web hosting for newbies, who are just using Dreamweaver or Netscape
DS> Composer to make their first web page - and just need the simple "upload"
DS> FTP button to work.

DS> Again - any advice from my OpenBSD buddies on how to do it safest on
DS> OpenBSD would be appreciated.



>>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?
>>
>>Any advice or URLs appreciated.