Contents tagged with FTP
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FTP 7.5 blind drop article
Years ago I wrote an article on setting up a blind drop FTP server I was searching for some information and ran across an updated article using FTP 7.5. Funny thing I recently setup a blind drop using FTP 7.5 and referred to my article on permissions.
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Walkthrough on how to use FTP authentication to provide dynamic IP restrictions FTP 7.5
Few months back, Microsoft released a new module that blocked HTTP requests from brute force attack, http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions This is great for HTTP requests, but didn't address another pressing need, FTP brute force attacks. Robert McMurray published a walkthrough for the FTP service that shows how to create an authentication provider, that gives you dynamic IP restrictions for the FTP service.
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Information Post on FTP, Active, Passive settings and SSL by Alun Jones
I started hanging out in the newsgroups again, along with the forums at http://forums.iis.net I ran across a particular interesting post by Alun Jones (Security MVP and maker of WSFTPD). There are a fair amount of posts on http://forums.iis.net about FTP, some are confused by Active, Passive, and SSL settings. His posting in the newsgroups described this very clearly. (IMO). What people are confused about is how Active, Passive connections are handled.
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Configure Passive (PASV) ports for FTP 7 - w/pictures
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, in this case it's worth every one. Recently in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net, a few posts came up people trying to setup FTP over SSL with an external firewall. They were running into issues where they could connect, but couldn't get a directory list. After answering a few threads stating the configuration to support FTP over SSL with PASV ports. I thought I would blog what few steps to complete the config. This blog isn't meant to be the 'end all be all', but will be a targeted post to help people visually.
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530 User cannot log in, home directory inaccessible, FTP 7.0 user isolation and Process Monitor
I was trying to reproduce an issue posted on the forums @ ( http://forums.iis.net ). As with many posts, I mention use Process Monitor. Here is a perfect example. Download Process Monitor Find out what PID (process ID) in task manager Open Process Monitor...(read more)