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On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:58 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > What I meant is "secure" ftp. |
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> > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. |
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> > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) |
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> It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: |
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> # override default of no subsystems |
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> Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server |
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> Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. |
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there is scp (part of openssh) and also sshfs which allows you to mount an |
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sftp connection as a local directory. |
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If you don't want to mess with ssh (why? it is really easy stuff) read this |
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http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html |
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With this ftps I am not sure if just logins are encrypted or if data tranfers |
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are encrypted as well. |
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