[CentOS] selinux allow FTP

Tim Dunphy bluethundr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 23:46:47 UTC 2015


Good advice guys. I'll check out vsftpd. Thanks!

Tim

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> On Mar 2, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> Also check this out: http://www.bitvise.com/ftp-bridge
> 
> --
> Eero
> 
> 2015-03-03 0:51 GMT+02:00 Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2015-03-03 0:43 GMT+02:00 Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> errr, I meant,   sftp, not rscp
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Heh.. yeah. But the client isn't gonna go for that. LOL. Any way to allow
>>> regular ol' FTP using SELinux? Or does that just defeat the purpose of
>>> having a secure SELlinux server entirely?
>> 
>> FTP is not safe as it does not encrypt username(s) and password(s) or
>> traffic during transfer.
>> 
>> RHEL/Centos provides SELinux booleans and settings at least for vsftpd
>> (very secure ftpd). Please use it, if possible.
>> 
>> --
>> Eero
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