#1410 new defect

sftp server listens on reachable IP addresses by default — at Initial Version

Reported by: gdt Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: undecided
Component: code-frontend-ftp-sftp Version: 1.8.2
Keywords: sftp security Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

The sftp server listens without binding to localhost by default. While the docs advise (see #1175) to specify 127.0.0.1, sftp should default to local because it's the standard approach for FUSE mounting, and mounting a filesystem locally should not cause any globally listening sockets.

Eventually we'll have IPv6, so listening should be on not only 127.0.0.1 but also ::1. Therefore I suggest a variable in the sftpd section "global", defaulting to false, that if false causes listening on localhost only, and if true the current behavior.

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