At 03/02/2002 12:48 PM -0500, Ray Smith wrote:
>I've been using IIS 4 and IIS 5 for a few years and I don't think there
>is another way to store ftp users in NT - that's the way I've done it
>when I had to.
Ray is correct; any logon ID must be set up as a Windows NT user ID. To
limit the risk, one should always make it a **local**, rather than a domain ID.
>NT's ftp service is widely known to be unsecure. MS has
>never put many resources into developing it. I'm not a Microsoft basher
>(usually) but I do avoid using IIS ftp server.
Although IIS is not secure by itself, this can be fixed by downloading and
installing the Windows version of a freeware security utility named
"SafeTP", available from:
http://safetp.cs.berkeley.edu/
The server utility works with any "legacy" FTP server, including
IIS. There is a matching client utility, available in Windows and Unix
(but not, alas, Mac) versions, which works in combination with whatever FTP
client processes it finds on your computer, including standard FTP clients
such as WS_FTP and FTP processes embedded in other applications (such as
PowerPoint, Netscape, and Dreamweaver).
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