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

[Pierre Chopot <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello List,

Saturday, December 29, 2001, 2:37:43 AM, you wrote:

JL> 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/

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

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

JL> Jeff

Thanks for reminding me about WinSCP. I used ver 1 for a while but it
had numerous problems that seems to have been fixed with ver 2, I'll
try again.

Also the really great thing about SafeTP (that I mentionned) is that
people keep their usual FTP client, be it CuteFTP or Dreamweaver. And
if they don't install the proxy, they still can FTP as usual (although
that can be forbidden).

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Regards,
 Pierre                          
 pierre@xxxxxxxxxxx