Re: [SLUG] What is the securest FTP daemon?

[Matthew Palmer <mjp16@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:

> > > what is considered the securest FTP daemon?
> > 
> > openssh does the trick for me.
> 
> It is sometime REALLY strange what answers one gets!
> I wish people would/could *JUST* answer the question.

I *did*.

> I do not want to bother my users with ssh keys or neither
> the level of sophistication SSH brings against FTP.

I'm not entirely sure how much more sophisticated typing your username and
password into an sftp client is to typing it into an ftp client...

> I want to give people anonymous FTP access to one of
> our bastion hosts to upload files which should have
> automatically file permission set in a way that
> they cannot be downloaded.

Now if you'd said that in the first place, then I would have given a
different answer.  You ask an incorrect question, and then get shitty 'cause
you get the wrong answer?


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