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

[Bryon Gill]

Er, sorry, that should read "scp/sftp are fine if you care more about security 
than raw speed".

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bryon Gill wrote:

> 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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