John R Pierce wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> As a rule, we require external developers to access our servers >> using OpenVPN which provides a simple means of getting secure >> access without having to deal with multiple server components. >> > > and, at work, our GNOC guys use SSL-VPN's from Juniper, which for > business partners are highly restricted such that they can ONLY access > the specific server and services they have rights to. while I'm not in > the group that manages this, the guys who do are on my floor, and tell > me that the global management console makes managing all this a > breeze... we have dozens of firewalls as we're a 50000 employee global > manufacturing company, this is all under central control. > > you mentioned FTP and FTPS... I prefer whenever possible to use > scp/sftp, as its much easier to forward through a NAT/Masquerade > firewall. I have no idea if Dreamweaver supports this, however. > Hi John, Good pointers but i'm not sure i'm up to setup a chrooted ssh environment. I tried that a couple of times (not on this network) and it wasn't very practical. I'm not saying i'm an expert at that and it may very well be my fault if i found it cumbersome. vsftpd is supposed to support FTPS so it would be perfect in my situation. Thanks! Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos