Re: Linux FTP Security

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 04/10/02 

From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:14:48 GMT

"Travis Casey" <efindel@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:he209a.fp.ln@titan.tobara.org...
> Stephan Göldi wrote:
>
> >> 3. Even if you chroot all of your users, you should still NOT use ftp
> >> to control the filesystem. Use SSH and scp, sftp ext... they are
> >> encrypted and secured. Allowing root to login to the ftp server is
> >> never a good idea.
> >
> > And how about micros~1.oft users? Do they know what sftp and scp are?
>
> Usually not, but, contrary to rumor, many MS users are at least somewhat
> trainable. ;-) For them, there's a free SSH client package called
> "PuTTY", which includes SSH, SFTP, and SCP.

And for those who prefer a nice GUI for transferring files as opposed to the
horrid missing ftp commands of sftp (such as mput and mget), there is
WinSCP2.

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