Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:56:40 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> In brief, for: >> - Server managing purposes (SSH) >> - File transfers for system users with shell access (SFTP) >> - Remote/external file transfers with no shell access (FTPS) > > Also file transfers for system users,

Vsftpd and TLS (was: What is the most secure FTP server?)

2011-03-11 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:50:16 -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > Quick question for those of us running anonymous ftp: Is it possible to > configure vsftpd to allow unencrypted anonymous sessions, but require > encryption for all user sessions? I've looked at the configuration but > all of the

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Davies
Camaleón wrote: > In brief, for: > - Server managing purposes (SSH) > - File transfers for system users with shell access (SFTP) > - Remote/external file transfers with no shell access (FTPS) Also file transfers for system users, without shell access (SFTP). There is a surprising amount of flexib

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:26 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, wrote: > > > > Hello Jason, > > > > From: Jason Hsu > > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 > > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP > over SSH? Or something else? > > >

Re (2): What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread peasthope
From: shawn wilson Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:26 -0500 > Ok, my gut tells me that plain text protocols might be faster than encrypted > ones. However, I have no data to back this up and have never noticed > 'significant' differences between rsync and rsync+ssh. Do you have this > benchmark o

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, wrote: > > Hello Jason, > > From: Jason Hsu > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP over SSH? Or something else? > > Another possibility is to firewall your LAN and use an ftp > with satisfac

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread peasthope
Hello Jason, From: Jason Hsu Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP over > SSH? Or something else? Another possibility is to firewall your LAN and use an ftp with satisfactory features. You will find that plain FTP

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600, Jason Hsu writes: > I understand that regular FTP has inferior security due to the lack of > encryption. So I'm looking for an alternative to use on my home > server. > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP > over SSH? Or something

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread shawn wilson
my favorite alternative to ftp? YES! all, everything, anything. hell, dropbox is better than ftp. but, just fire up your ssh server and out of the box, you've got tons of features - including file transfer. here's another suggestion: don't, under any circumstances, ever use ftp. for clients on no

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I understand that regular FTP has inferior security due to the lack of > encryption. So I'm looking for an alternative to use on my home server. An alternative to FTP can be SSH. But you can still secure your FTP server by adding TLS (most

What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Hsu
I understand that regular FTP has inferior security due to the lack of encryption. So I'm looking for an alternative to use on my home server. What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP over SSH? Or something else? -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: secure ftp...

2001-10-17 Thread Alexander Wallace
Thanks! I think that is what I need... On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:17:40PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:58:35AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > > > Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it > > >

Re: secure ftp...

2001-10-17 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:17:40PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:58:35AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > > Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it > > require special client? Any sugestions??? > > Provided that you have ssh installed on bot

Re: secure ftp...

2001-10-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:58:35AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it > require special client? Any sugestions??? Provided that you have ssh installed on both sides, check out hsftp. It's not _really_ ftp, but it gives you an ftp-l

secure ftp...

2001-10-16 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it require special client? Any sugestions??? Thanks!

Secure FTP daemon

2001-04-08 Thread Tom Alsberg
Hi there. Until recently, I was running wu-ftpd as my FTP daemon. But I don't want to use it anymore for security reasons (it has a lot of security holes, which are easily exploitable). So I'm looking for some other secure FTP daemon. I tried bsd-ftpd, and proftpd, both were fine

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > dselect. > > In any case, what are you folks using as a replacement for unsecure > FTP protocol? I need a solution that would also provide my Windows > users a viable method to transfer files to my server.

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:38:09PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: :Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in :dselect. I don't see it for "stable" either, though it is showing up on my "unstable" boxen. You could get the source and recompile against you're installed libraries.

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread John Galt
locutus:/usr/src# apt-cache show sftp Package: sftp Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5-1 Depends: ssh, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, libreadline4 (>= 4.1) Filename: dists/woody/non-US/main/binary

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > > dselect. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -p sftp > Package: sftp > Priority: optional > Section: non-US > Filename: dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-i386/sftp_0.9.5-1.d

Re: A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > dselect. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -p sftp Package: sftp Priority: optional Section: non-US Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.9.5-1 Depends: ssh,

A secure FTP replacement

2001-01-22 Thread Arcady Genkin
Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in dselect. In any case, what are you folks using as a replacement for unsecure FTP protocol? I need a solution that would also provide my Windows users a viable method to transfer files to my server. Now that I've wrapped POP3 and IMA

secure ftp replacement (was Re: How to contact administrator?)

2000-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
xport, that leaves Canada and virtually everywhere else in the world free to develop crypto. the RSA patent is now expired. so what i am wondering, is there now a project somewhere (Canada, the Netherlands etc) to build a secure ftp replacement that is more in line with how ftp works (no need for a

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-05 Thread Michael Smith
If you're working on a workstation with X, GFTP (the recent version) can use sftp for secure, guix ftp. Just make a connection with ssh to get the key, and then select the ssh protocol in GFTP. brian moore wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > > Hello, > > > >

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:24:23 -0700, brian moore said: > > : On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > : > Hi all, > : > > : > If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2. > : > : If you have openss

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:24:23 -0700, brian moore said: : On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: : > Hi all, : > : > If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2. : : If you have openssh installed, there is 'sftp', even available as a deb : of the same name. : Th

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread brian moore
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote: > Hi all, > > If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2. If you have openssh installed, there is 'sftp', even available as a deb of the same name. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/P

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread Tal Danzig
Hi all, If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2. Tal On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:32:56 -0500, Herbert Ho said: : i use scp and they're no extra software to install. you can get : directory listings and everything. though you : can't browse. : : *shrug* : : : herbert : : On Mon, Sep

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread Herbert Ho
i use scp and they're no extra software to install. you can get directory listings and everything. though you can't browse. *shrug* herbert On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:44:28PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > _ is to ncftp, as ssh is to telnet. > > Is there a secure method of ftp? I use ssh

Re: secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:44:28PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > _ is to ncftp, as ssh is to telnet. > > Is there a secure method of ftp? I use ssh instead of telnet between my > home and work computers, but figured that's not all that great if I use > ftp just as much and it isn't as secure

secure ftp

2000-09-04 Thread Brian Stults
_ is to ncftp, as ssh is to telnet. Is there a secure method of ftp? I use ssh instead of telnet between my home and work computers, but figured that's not all that great if I use ftp just as much and it isn't as secure. I really like ncftp, though, so I would hate to give it up. What w