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Tag Archives: ftp

Generating a pure-ftpd RPM for Amazon’s Linux

Posted on June 6, 2011 by cyberx86
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The only ftp server the amzn repository has is vsftpd. While, as the name suggests, vsftpd is supposed to be ‘very secure’ many other ftp servers have a comparable track record for security. Of these, pure-ftpd is easily configured and … Continue reading →

Posted in: Systems Admin Tagged: compile, ftp, rpmbuild

Using Wireshark to Debug FTPES through vsFTP

Posted on January 22, 2011 by cyberx86
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Using Wireshark to Debug FTPES through vsFTP While vsFTP is lightweight and has a relatively good track record, the verbosity of its logs is lacking. Without having an error logged, it can be considerably more difficult to find and resolve … Continue reading →

Posted in: Systems Admin Tagged: filezilla, ftp, ssl, vsftpd

Configuring vsFTPd to use TLS

Posted on January 9, 2011 by cyberx86
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A typical FTP session, will send login information unencrypted. It is a fairly simple matter to configure vsftpd to use SSL/TLS and encrypt connections. You can either create a self-signed certificate for this purpose, or use an existing third-party issued … Continue reading →

Posted in: Systems Admin Tagged: ftp, ssl, tls, vsftpd

Limiting brute-force attacks with IPTables

Posted on January 4, 2011 by cyberx86
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Update: a more comprehensive, tiered version of the procedure below is outlined in Escalating Consquences with ipTables. The material below is, however still applicable, and forms the basis for many more advanced implementations. For the past few weeks, I have … Continue reading →

Posted in: Systems Admin Tagged: ftp, imap, iptable, pop3, security, ssh

FileZilla’s Quickconnect List

Posted on January 3, 2011 by cyberx86
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My preferred FTP client has, for a long time, been FileZilla. To connect to a FTP account, I generally select the account from the Quickconnect menu, as I am sure many others do. However, I find that sometimes on connecting … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: filezilla, ftp, xml

Installing vsftpd on Amazon’s Linux AMI

Posted on November 22, 2010 by cyberx86
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By default, Amazon’s Linux AMI provides only the amzn repository. While this repository does have quite a selection of packages, there are a few commonly used packages that are missing (e.g. php-mcrypt). On the FTP side, the only FTP server … Continue reading →

Posted in: Systems Admin Tagged: ftp, vsftpd
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