[wplug] Intro to running (s)ftp service?

[Bryon Gill]

Let me just add to this that I believe you get sftp as part of the sshd package 
in most of the distributions I've used (I believe it's a config option if you 
compile from source), and scp/sftp are fine if you don't care more about 
security than raw speed.

Bryon

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:

> "Peter Williams" <broadway at city-net.com> wrote:
>> If I start by learning ftp, how much of that will carry over to working
>> with sftp?  I do wish to learn both.
>
> I'm not really a server guy, so take whatever I say with a grain of
> salt.  The sftp client is made to look like ftp to users, but works
> in a completely different way.  It's unlikely that learning to set
> up an ftp server would help you set up sshd (other than gaining
> general knowledge of your system).
>
> If I were setting up a server, I wouldn't use FTP.  A lot of today's
> firewalls and port filtering thingies interfere with the way it
> operates (even with passive mode sometimes, I've found).  The often-
> used wuftpd server is in a similar class as bind and sendmail as far
> as security problems go.
>
> So if you want authenticated uploads and downloads, I'd say go with
> sshd.  If all you need are anonymous downloads, a web server will do
> nicely.
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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