Can I hide the pure-ftpd version from telnet?

G

ghostcorps

Hi Guys

I have just setup Pure-ftpd with TLS and it's working beautifully. But I want to hide the name/version, so that if someone telnets my ftp port me they will not know which ftp server I use.

Is this possible without starting again with Pro-ftpd?
 
Thanks Smurf :)

I am looking into that now. I don't suppose you could tell me which file I need to change? Surely it's not going to be as simple as changing the name in the Makefile is it?

[update] I have recompiled without the banner option, this hasn't actually removed the welcome banner... ? I am still looking though.
 
I am modifying ./work/pure-ftpd-1.0.29/src/ftpd.c ln.5175 and onwards, but the more I look at it the more I wonder why disabling the banner in the config didn't do all of this automatically?

I would rather just switch off the banner altogether than fiddle with patching the source. Do you know why this may not be working?
 
Hello,

You can hide version/name by uncommenting (and editing path) fortune file in your pure-ftpd.conf

Code: 
# Display fortune cookies

FortunesFile              /usr/share/games/fortune/zippy

Code: 
[cmd=$]telnet localhost 21[/cmd]
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 YOU PICKED KARL MALDEN'S NOSE!!
 
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