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Re: [cobalt-developers] I need "Admin" with "Root" FTP Permissions
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] I need "Admin" with "Root" FTP Permissions
- From: "Jan Wildeboer" <jan.wildeboer@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Nov 9 03:20:04 2001
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Sun Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
>
> Simply log into ftp as the admin user, upload to the default directory,
> and then use a telnet/ssh session to move/copy the files to the required
> location (after changing to the root user with "su -")._
For security reasons I would never use ftp with the admin account. In the
default setup the roor password is the same as the adminpassword and ftp
transfers the password in plain text with no encryption of any kind. If you
need root/admin access ONLY use ssh.
Just my 2c
Jan Wildeboer
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