RE: Looking for ftp over SSL (TLS) daemon...

From: Aaron Sethman (asethman@teleglobe.net)
Date: 04/18/02 

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aaron Sethman <asethman@teleglobe.net>
To: "Gordon, Chris" <Chris.Gordon@CWUSA.COM>

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Gordon, Chris wrote:
>
> There is sftp which gives you an ftp like interface which IIRC uses ssh as
> the underlying connection (so this might be outside of your requirements).
> OpenSSH provides an sftp client and sshd handles the server side of the sftp
> connection. Another option would be to use something like stunnel (OpenSSL)
> to build a TLS tunnel and then run an ftp connection through it.

This won't really work, as this doesn't handle the data channel at all.
FTP doesn't tend to lend itself well to this sort of thing. You really
are better of with sftp or something similar.

Regards,

Aaron

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