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Enable anonymous FTP in 10.5 and 10.6
Authored by: leamanc on Oct 27, '09 06:04:44PM

You are mostly right with regards to the risk of enabling anonymous FTP. But there is always the possibility that there will be a security hole in the ftp daemon that Apple ships that could allow execution of arbitrary code. As of now, there are no known issues, but that doesn't mean one couldn't crop up at some point. And Apple is somewhat slow to address these types of vulnerabilities--in comparison to the Linux and *BSD worlds, that is. (They still do better than Microsoft in this regard.)



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