[Courses] [Security] netstat, and file copying

[Akkana]

Jenn Vesperman writes:
> On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:37, Akkana wrote:
> > If one has a need for ftp, what's a good server?  Redhat uses wu-ftp,
> > which I've heard is about the worst as far as security holes?
> 
> If you're trying to write the pages, rather than to actually serve the
> pages, you don't need an FTP -server-. Just a client.

Good point!  In my case, we run our own server (DSL), so my ftpd question
applied to the server, but I didn't make that clear in my posting. 
For publishing a page to an ISP, there's no need to run a server on the
local machine (you let the ISP worry about ftp security on their end).

	...Akkana