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On 2012/06/08 05:44, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
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>And in this day and age with password sniffing going on over
> local networks by zombied machines and happening as a matter of government
> policy worldwide in data centers, and the historic firewall wackiness with FTP's
> 2 channel communications, *WHY* is your client using FTP for anything that is
> password based? You can cross-hook it to normal logins, true, but this is a
> really bad idea for basic security reasons and should be avoided wherever feasible.
> Or are they using FTPS?

rpm -qi vsftpd or yum info vsftpd should answer your question Nico, I
suspect.

{o.o}

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