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From: Justin Krejci <jus@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@g.o
Cc: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:58:22
Message-Id: 200607130126.10819.jus@krytosvirus.com
1 On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:58 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
3 > > What I meant is "secure" ftp.
4 > > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http.
5 > >
6 > > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple)
7 >
8 > It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
9 >
10 > # override default of no subsystems
11 > Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
12 >
13 > Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not.
14 >
15
16 there is scp (part of openssh) and also sshfs which allows you to mount an
17 sftp connection as a local directory.
18
19 If you don't want to mess with ssh (why? it is really easy stuff) read this
20 http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html
21 With this ftps I am not sure if just logins are encrypted or if data tranfers
22 are encrypted as well.
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