On 06.02.2014 23:38, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here: > > https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html > > one reads: > > "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure connection protocols > should be prohibited. Otherwise, a user's password may be protected > using SSH for one session, only to be captured later while logging in > using Telnet. Some services to disable include telnet, rsh, rlogin, > and vsftpd." > > never having used sftp before, i'm confused ... isn't sftp simply a > secure ftp client? and if so, why would one want to disable vsftpd? i > would still need an ftp server, would i not? can someone clarify what > that passage is saying? thanks. > > rday > Stop reading RHEL7 documentation! You confuse yourself. Learn to distinguish a program(client and server) from a protocol! Secure File Transfer Protocol /etc/ssh/sshd_config Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server man 5 sshd_config man 8 sftp-server man 1 sftp 5+8+1=13! poma -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
