[X Servers] xinetd starting mystery FTP

Eugene Lee list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Sun May 30 13:24:31 PDT 2004


On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:12:50PM -0700, Steve St-Laurent wrote:
: 
: Well, I need FTP for some clients but the server is configured with NO 
: anonymous logins. I had thought this was a reasonable safety measure. 
: No?

It's okay.

: And the logs show no FTP activity that I don't know about. So START 
: doesn't mean connect, just attempt to connect? Thanks.

Yep, START doesn't mean logged in.  It means a successful connection.
But it doesn't mean they've successfully gotten through with a correct
login/password combination.


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Eugene Lee
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