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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: |
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>> Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server |
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>> for Gentoo? |
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>> My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building |
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>> websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web |
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>> server and give him his own directory to play with. |
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>> I have never had a need for ftp since I have always used ssh. |
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>> However, I want to make it as easy as possible for him to learn web |
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>> page design, so that is why I thought ftp would be the easiest and |
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>> most supported by tools. He uses winXP and I think Nvu can publish to |
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>> ftp. If he really gets into building websites, he wants to purchase |
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>> something like dreamweaver. |
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>>> From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow |
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>>> someone |
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>> to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. |
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>> I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses |
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>> tcp wrappers. |
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>> Thanks for any guidance, |
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> What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. |
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What kind of a client do you need to talk to an sftp server? |
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