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You gain ftp access for those that are unable to get a sftp client |
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working. Hosting setups or whatnot. |
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Matt |
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Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Well, something (ssh?) installed sftp on both of my boxes... anything |
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> wrong with using that? It's secure and seems to work just fine. What do |
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> pureftp and proftp offer that sftp doesn't? |
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> Andrea Ferraris wrote: |
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>>> From: "Benjamin Coles" <sj7trunks@g.o> |
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>>> I second proftpd... most people like to complain and say ftp is a |
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>>> unsecure protocol because it's not ssl. Well news to the people that |
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>>> don't know, proftpd supports ssl which works wonders on system=) |
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>> Thx. Good to know. |
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>> I don't know wich are the details and I have very litle experience with |
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>> proftpd and none with pure-ftpd, but for curiosity I went to pure-ftpd |
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>> site and I saw: |
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>> "Transmission of cleartext passwords and commands can be avoided : |
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>> Pure-FTPd has optional support for an SSL/TLS encryption layer using |
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>> the OpenSSL library. " |
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>> I also saw that Pure-FTP doesn't have any records of security |
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>> vulnerability, |
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>> instead it seems that in the past there was compromised system due to |
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>> proftpd security bugs. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Andrea |
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