From: Brian W. (no email)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 11:09:14 EST
scp is also a possibility, its usage is a bit cryptic, but it is an
option..
Brian
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> >1) many versions of FTP make you system vulnerable to root cracks.
>
> ...which are problems that need to be fixed. if you know of any...
>
> >2) There is NO way to run FTP in a SSH tunnel because it uses dynamic port
> >assignments.
>
> well...that's not entirely true. you can tunnel the command channel,
> just not the data channel.
>
> >3) FTP logins are plain-text.
>
> sure, which is why you tunnel them via ssh, or use ipsec.
> actually...if you use ipsec, you can get the data protected as well.
>
> >For sharing files, with anonymous users, HTTP is much better (see:
> >http://files.dnso.net)
>
> for sharing files with anonymous users, i'll always be using anonftp.
>
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