COMMAND

    gftp

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    RedHat Linux

PROBLEM

    Oscar Haeger  found following.   In gFTP1.13,  an FTP-client  that
    ships with RH6.0  the password is  displayed in plain  text in the
    log window and is also saved in plain text if you choose to save a
    logfile.  Granted this  is not a really  big deal but if  you save
    your download-files (and  logfile) on a  public area you  would be
    giving  away  your  password.   This  ftp-client  is  (one of) the
    default ftp-clients in RH6.0 and  if you don't know about  it then
    perhaps you won't go through the trouble of an upgrade.

SOLUTION

    Oscar  spoke  with  the  author  and  he has some new versions out
    which he recommends that you get and install:

        http://gftp.seol.org/

    Latest version is 2.0.4 but this particular bug was fixed in 2.0.0