Re: [cobalt-users] secure ftp

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre Chopot wrote:

> 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/

We recommend WinSCP2 for Windows; it installs like, and looks like, an
FTP client, but it uses ssh.  All built in; nothing else to worry about.

While you can turn off FTP if you use this solution, it's NOT a good
idea; if you do, then you'll lose clients.  We only recommend it; after
all using site admin passwords it's the site than can be hacked; if data
is sniffed, it's customer data.

Jeff
-- 
Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting
nobaloney.net
P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA  92517
voice: (909) 778-9980  *  fax: (702) 548-9484