On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Tim Evans wrote: > On 02/06/2014 05:38 PM, 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. > > Actually 'sftp' is a special interface to ssh that looks and acts > like ftp, but doesn't use the ftp protocol. You do not need to > maintain a vsftpd server to support folks using sftp. yes, i realize that now ... having never used sftp before and based on something i clearly misread, i had assumed sftp was simply a more secure ftp client to talk to an *existing* ftp server; i know better now. and as for the admonition to *not* read RHEL 7 docs, given that RHEL 7 will allegedly be based on fedora 19 (more precisely, what appears to be a mix of fedora 18, 19, and 20), i would think that the current RHEL 7 beta docs online should at least be moderately relevant with respect to fedora. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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
