On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|Depends on the ftp daemon. If you allow root logins over ftp, you can
|certainly do this.
|This feature is usually off by default, but can be explicitly turned
|on.
Hmm.. shouldn't that be "This security lapse is usually off by default,
but can be explicitly turned on."
you might as well allow root to telnet etc !
And in this particular case where the security concsious people have
stopped telnet access... allowing root ftp would be rather dumb.
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
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