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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FTP with authentication to RADIUS
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. > > -- > |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| > [email protected] * "ah! i see you have the internet > [email protected] (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" > [email protected] * "information is power -- share the wealth." >
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