On Wed October 6 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > > so, is it better to ftp over SSL or sftp using ssh? > > As others have said, chrooting FTPS is easier than chrooting ssh and its > kin. sftp also infers ssh must be available as well. I don't know if > that's true or not. If it is and someone guesses your password, then > they get a shell via ssh. Depends on how paranoid you are. I'm... a small home user, and not at all familiar with chrooting, should I be using it too? as for the guessing my password, that is a good point. Though I do not do that as root, still, that would allow access to my system. > FTPS has the ability to use three different encryption things: no > encryption, encryption of just the control channel or encryption of > both control and data connections. vsftpd allows you to run both > regular FTP and FTPS using the same daemon and there's no possibilty > of an outsider getting a shell. vsftpd, I'll have to check that out. thanks for the tips & info, always good to learn new useful apps.. > > It's up to you. We use sftp for most things here, but I've had a lot > of clients in the past want FTP/FTPS. As for the paranoia thing: > > "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get me!" that's exactly how I think when I'm out on my motorcycle:) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
