FTPS question..

From: Peter (yabing.bi_at_ncr.com)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:42:48 -0700

Hi,

I am a new comer on security topics, but I downloaded and installed ftps
from http://bsdftpd-ssl.sc.ru/files/bsdftpd-ssl/archive/sslftp-win/0.6/.

After spending sometime trouble shooting to make it run, now if I connected
to a testing system, I was led to C:\inetpub\ftproot dir. I tried to go to
root (C:) dir by 'cd ..' or 'cdup', couldn't, 'ls' still always show the
same files in \ftproot dir. Here is the snapshot of the screen:
======================================================
ftps> open system2
Connected to system2.mycompany.com.
220 system2 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
Name (system2:none): administrator
500 'AUTH TLS': command not understood
500 'AUTH SSL': command not understood
TLS/SSL not available
331 Password required for administrator.
Password:
230 User administrator logged in.
Remote system type is Windows_NT.
ftps> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
...
...
================================================
I was expecting it to lead me to some windows directory (C:\ or C:\Program
Files, and so on), how can I do it?

I also see
-----------
500 'AUTH TLS': command not understood
500 'AUTH SSL': command not understood
TLS/SSL not available
-----------
is that because I don't have SSL (or SSH?) server on the system? I couldn't
'cd ..' or 'cdup', is that because I don't have SSL (or SSH) installed on
the system?

Then I tried my machine, which has SSH server installed (from
http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html sshd service is runing after
installation), but it picked a funny 'real path' after login, here the
snapshot:
=======================================
ftps> open localhost
Connected to mymachine.
220 SurgeFTP corp (Version 2.2j8)
Name (localhost:none): loginname
234 Enabling SSL
[TLSv1/SSLv3, cipher DES-CBC3-SHA, 168 bits]
331 Password required for loginname.
Password:
230- Alias Real path Access
230- / C:\home\loginname read+write
230 User loginname logged in.
200 Great whatever you say
200 Data channel will be encrypted
TLS/SSL protection of data connections on.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftps> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY connection for /
226 Transfer complete. (no files in directory).
ftps>
============================================
The problem in the msg is that it said "Remote system type is UNIX.", while
my machine is running on W2K (but I have cygwin installed as mentioned
above).

Can anybody here help me to clear out the situations?

BTW, wer are searching around of a good secure ftp program supporting SSL,
is ftps the best one? Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

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