NT4, IIS4 FTP service. Yawn.

From: Kayne Ian (Softlab) (Ian.Kayneat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 01:56:33 PST

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    Hey all,
    	Noticed something a little odd. It may have potential, already been
    noticed, or it may be a dead end...
    
    NT4 SP6a, IIS 4 with hotfixes. Only the FTP service installed. I created a
    new FTP site, and set the Enable Anynomous Access and Allow Only Anonymous
    options. The anon account was set to the standard IUSER account.
    
    FTP'd to the machine, and tried to log in as anonymous, password "password".
    This is what happened:
    
    ------------------------------------
    c:\>ftp x.x.x.x
    Connected to x.x.x.x.
    220 xxxxxxx Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0).
    User (x.x.x.x:(none)): anonymous
    331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
    Password:
    530 User (password) cannot log in.
    Login failed.
    ------------------------------------
    
    Notice that? Whatever password I typed in for the anonymous account was
    echo'd back to the screen in plain text on the 530 error message.
    
    Of course, your next question will be, why is the anonymous account
    rejecting a login password? Good point, it seemed that the IIS password
    synchronization feature had broken itself. 
    
    As I said, it may be nothing, but it seems strange to me that the password
    should be echo'd to screen in plaintext.
    
    Ian Kayne
    Technical Specialist - IT Solutions
    Softlab Ltd - A BMW Company
    
    
    
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