redhat 7.1

[dave]

I did find out how to turn them on, /etc/xinetd.d and just pico telnet
or wu-ftpd and change the last line from yes disable to no, but I
decided to take the given advice and use winSCP, right now its saying
access denied, not sure if there is something I need to configure on the
box itself, or if port 22 is used, which was default in the winscp
program.  Anyone have some options?  www.cygwin.com
<http://www.cygwin.com/>  is not valid.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:32 AM
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Subject: [luau] Re: redhat 7.1
 
Redhat decided to disable telnet and FTP by default because they are
insecure protocols.  IMHO, this was a SMART move.  I highly suggest
everyone NEVER to use either protocol, with the exception of anonymous
FTP to download files from file archives.  Redhat finally made this good
decision, probably after they were burned by the Ramen worm cracking
their wuftpd in Redhat 6.x.
 
Redhat 7.1 contains OpenSSH v2.5.2x which has several valid alternatives
to FTP for all your file transfer needs.  SSH v1 protocol supports
'scp'.  Other Linux machines can easily use the client to transfer
files.  Windows can use the same OpenSSH tools if you install Cygwin
http://www.cygwin.com
 
Though I'm guessing that you rather have friendly GUI tools in Windows
for doing file transfers.  Here are several free options.
 
WinSCP - Similar interface to WS_FTP or CuteFTP
http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
 
Mindterm - Java SSH client with built in SCP and SFTP, a more friendly
file transfer protocol introduced in SSH v2.  Because Mindterm is
written in Java, it runs fine on many Windows, MacOS, Linux, and Solaris
JVM's.  The latest version of Mindterm has the following options for
file transfers.
 
1) SCP - Works fine, but somewhat inconvenient because you must type in
the complete file name in the remote side.
2) SFTP (text mode) - SFTP client, with roughly the same commands as any
text mode FTP.  Not very convenient either.
3) FTP to SFTP bridge - Now this is awesome.  Simply connect to the
remote machine via SSH, then activate the FTP to SFTP bridge.  You can
then connect to ftp://localhost with your favorite FTP client and
transfer files just as you would normally.  The current version of
Mindterm has slight bugs in this bridge, but they should be fixed by the
next release.
4) FTP to FTP via SSH tunnel.  This is a bit more complex.  You run the
normal FTP daemon on the Redhat machine, except use iptables to disallow
connections from anywhere except 127.0.0.1 (itself).  You then configure
a FTP tunnel in Mindterm and connect to yourself in the same fashion as
method 3 with any FTP client.  All traffic is routed through the SSH
tunnel in a secure fashion.
 
*****
PLEASE USE SCP and/or SFTP!!!
But I can't force you.  If you don't care about security, use FTP.
wuftpd requires xinetd to be running.  Make sure it is running with 
/etc/init.d/xinetd status
and start with
/etc/init.d/xinetd start
 
To make the setting permanent within your current runlevel, run "setup"
and go into Services or something.  You'll find xinetd.  Also make sure
the FTP daemon is activated.
 
Alternative you can configure settings for all runlevels at once in
linuxconf "Control Service Activity".
 
but again, PLEASE DO NOT USE FTP!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: dave <mailto:d.eason at home.com>  
To: Linux  <mailto:luau at list.luau.hi.net> & Unix Advocates & Users 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: [luau] redhat 7.1
 
I upgraded from 7 to 7.1, is telnet/ftp off my default or did I mess
something up, SSH works, however.  I don't need telnet to be on but I do
need the ftp, any ideas/suggestions?
 
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