[tobi77]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: mosx86[/u][p]Where is xftp installed? When it’s running, what user owns it?[/p][/QUOTE]

It’s the default installation, no paths altered. The processes are owned by root.

[quote]I think the fix for this was to kill any instance of xftp that was running. Still, I don’t know why xftp would be running or what causes it to launch.[/quote]

It appears like a dictionary attack to me, which was confirmed by a user at the Apple discussions as well. The strange thing is just that I can’t figure out the origin IP address, it simply seems to start without warning (however I must confess having hundreds of such lines makes it not really easy to find something at the system log file, so likely I have overseen it).

[tobi77]

I know it’s an older thread, but we are currently facing the same issue…

So has somebody found the real reason why this happens and how to solve it (without disabling ftp or using a different ftp server) ?

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