Homebrew Discussion PSA - Disable FTP when using switch-lan-play

Freezerbomb · Oct 15, 2018

The CFWs that come with FTP have no password authentication. This means that anyone on your network can access your SD card. Someone could delete all the files off your SD card, or even replace your NROs with malicious ones (steal your cert, brick your console, etc.). I highly recommend that you disable FTP when using "switch-lan-play".

Ty_ · Oct 15, 2018

Good heads up

nero99 · Oct 15, 2018

“Steal your cert”.. what? The cert isn’t stored on you sd card. And no one can access your system unless they know which ip address is yours

RHOPKINS13 · Oct 15, 2018

nero99 said:
“Steal your cert”.. what? The cert isn’t stored on you sd card. And no one can access your system unless they know which ip address is yours

Cert isn't stored on SD card, but someone could still replace one of your NRO files with one that will get the cert from your Switch and send it to them. Or maybe even add a .kip module that would do it, it would take a while before most people noticed.

Sure, they may need your IP, but IP scanners do exist so that's really not a problem.

Freezerbomb · Oct 15, 2018

nero99 said:
“Steal your cert”.. what? The cert isn’t stored on you sd card. And no one can access your system unless they know which ip address is yours

Um.. Where did I say your cert is stored on your sd card? Learn to read please. And yes, you can figure out someones ip, or else you couldn't play online with them.

KingBlank · Oct 15, 2018

oh, lan play as in VPN play? okey

said31 · Oct 15, 2018

how to disable ftp ?!

Freezerbomb · Oct 15, 2018

said31 said:
how to disable ftp ?!

In SXOS, just go to options and toggle "FTP server" to disabled. I'm not sure about other CFWs.

Homebrew Discussion PSA - Disable FTP when using switch-lan-play

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