Re[2]: [cobalt-users] secure ftp

[Pierre Chopot <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello List,

Friday, December 28, 2001, 12:23:09 AM, you wrote:

LL> On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 02:06 PM, Jay Summers wrote:
>>> I am looking for a secure ftp solution,
>>> where passwords can not sniffed etc.
>>> Is it sftp to use?
>> Yes, that's one solution. You could also use Port Forwarding in OpenSSH 
>> with
>> regular FTP, although that can be a little tricky.
>>
>>> is it availble for my cobalt RAQ4?
>> Yes, SFTP comes with the installation of OpenSSH. Download the SSH .pkg 
>> and
>> turn off Telnet if you haven't already. Here's the link:

LL> I've often found that the sticking point isn't the server-side, but the 
LL> client-side.  Do you have any good/cheap suggestions for people who are 
LL> doing, say, Web development in, say, Dreamweaver and want to securely 
LL> upload to a RaQ?


LL> Lillith K. Lesanges
LL> Sysadmin/Programmer, MIS, Inc.                          http://www.misinc.net/

Same here. Having non-techie people do port forwarding and tunneling
is... well you know. I came across the following solution which allow
people to use their own FTP client (can be an FTP client or any
embedded FTP client), but they have to install something free (similar
to a proxy) on their machine. Only pbm I encountered, no Mac client as
of today (but Mac client still can FTP, and this could be solved by
MacOS X), and because of this I didn't install. You might want to have
a look (and let us know how it goes):

http://safetp.cs.berkeley.edu/

HTH.

-- 
Regards,
 Pierre                          
 pierre@xxxxxxxxxxx