Re: security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Could you explain the steps necessary to do this ? I am running sshd (v1 > I think) on my home system (woody) which is on a cable connection. I if you track woody then your probably using openssh v2. to forbid password authentic

Re: security of deb pkg's proftp and sftp

2000-09-10 Thread Nate Amsden
William Jensen wrote: > > Can anyone shed any light upon the likely security risks I would run using > proftpd vs sftp? From what I can tell sftp is for users only and it sets > up an encrypted connection before any passwords/users names are sent. That's > great, but how secure is this against h