2 Nov
2008
2 Nov
'08
12:19 p.m.
Robert Leverington wrote:
Hello Cliff,
ludo1960(a)lycos.co.uk wrote:
Couldn't agree more; I'd remove proftpd immediately unless you have a
pressing need for an ftp daemon to be running (sudo apt-get remove
proftpd if you're on debian/ubuntu) and use scp/sftp instead. Don't run
services which authenticate and perform data transfer in the clear when
you can do it all encrypted instead.
-n
Just to let you know that after a re-install
everything went spiffingly!
Fantastic.
I've installed Proftpd (from SSH! Hee hee, no
more webmin for me!)
I recommend you try to use SFTP, there are several good clients
available on Windows (e.g. WinSCP) and on Linux desktops the file
managers usually support it out of the box. It is much more secure and
generally requires no additional configuration as it uses the same
system as SSH.