From: Andrew Brown (no email)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 10:27:59 EST
>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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