Re: Linux FTP Security
From: Travis Casey (efindel@earthlink.net)Date: 04/10/02
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From: Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:42:41 GMT
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> "Travis Casey" <efindel@earthlink.net> wrote...
>> 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.
Hmm... haven't used PuTTY's sftp, but I know that OpenSSH's sftp will allow
put and get to be used with wildcards... which makes mput and mget mostly
unneeded.
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