Re: [Fed-Talk] Security Update Broke my ftp service (Very important)
Re: [Fed-Talk] Security Update Broke my ftp service (Very important)
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Security Update Broke my ftp service (Very important)
- From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:36:30 -0600
I bet every MCSE on here took offense to that! :)
In Roy's defense, Apple has changed a lot of the standard items..
plist files being one of them. Normally all of this is handled out of
the /etc directory with various .conf files.
I had to search for the plist because it was not where a standard Unix
conf file would be.
The only reason I know what I do is because I came from Linux before
OS X... most Mac users are used to things just working.
If you want to be technical nothing in OS X is "standard" as compared
to it's Unix counter parts... "php.ini.default"???...
/Library/WebServer/Documents/ for Apache?
I love Apple don't get me wrong, but the mistake that was made with
this update should not have happened... it's plain to see they
modified the ftp daemon processes - they should have tested it (on
both platforms) before releasing it. Or maybe it was just an
oversight.
With that being said, I truly love OS X Server, more so than linux,
but, there is nothing in the world more powerful than a terminal
window, and to this day I still have to tweak settings in every OS X
server we set up from the terminal because the GUI utils don't work
right.
Mike
On 4/25/07, Dave Schroeder <email@hidden> wrote:
People who "aren't familiar" with how to navigate to a simple path on
a UNIX system, and edit a file, should not be running servers...
- Dave
On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
> Good ol' Macintouch! Anyhow, I wrote an installer / patcher that
> will fix this on OS X Server if anyone wants it. It will not allow me
> to attach here, email off list if you need it. Click once, enter
> admin PW, reboot, fixed.
>
> A lot easier than navigating and finding the .plist file if you aren't
> familar with where they are.
> mike
>
>
> On 4/25/07, Roy Mendelssohn <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Ok - I am dumb - how do I put that into a plist file. And why hasn't
>> anyone from Apple responded. I have wasted 3 full days dealing with
>> the fact that our ftp servers were toasted. The silence was
>> deafening. Would one of the Apple people on this list please have
>> the gumption to give an actual response.
>>
>> -Roy M.
>> On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Rich Trouton wrote:
>>
>> > It looks like Macintouch has the explanation for this in its latest
>> > reader reports: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/
>> > index.html#apr25
>> >
>> > See Guillaume Gete's entry.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Rich
>> >
>> > On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
>> >
>> >> The security update has broken most of my ftp services. A system
>> >> that was working fine is now broken. It does not automatically
>> >> recognize where the new FTPRoot is, anonymous can nor download
>> from
>> >> directories where they use to be able to (permission denied) and
>> >> when I change settings using the GUI, no new settings occur.
>> >>
>> >> Something has been severely broken in this change. Can someone
>> >> knowledgeable from Apple please give me a call. We provide
>> data to a
>> >> lot of people and this has broken ftp on 3 different servers
>> with 3
>> >> different configurations.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> -Roy M,
>> >> **********************
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>> >> Roy Mendelssohn
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>> >>
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>> >> "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
>> >>
>> >>
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>> **********************
>> "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S.
>> Government or NOAA."
>> **********************
>> Roy Mendelssohn
>> Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
>> NOAA/NMFS
>> Environmental Research Division
>> Southwest Fisheries Science Center
>> 1352 Lighthouse Avenue
>> Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097
>>
>> e-mail: email@hidden (Note new e-mail address)
>> voice: (831)-648-9029
>> fax: (831)-648-8440
>> www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
>>
>> "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
>>
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