Re: Best FTP software for Ubuntu was: Web Commerce

On 10/23/2008 10:00 AM, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
[snip]

Yes, don't use ftp. Use scp or sftp with key-based authentication.
Particularly on a system on which you're going to be doing e-commerce,
there is no reason to use ftp and expose your ftp password, which for
many people because they don't know any better, is the same as their
user account password.

Others have suggested ftp-based mirroring software to synchronize your
machine with another host. Don't do that either. Use rsync over ssh.

Here is an article I wrote for our hosting clients, most of whom are
running Windows
<http://dinamis.com/support/a-secure-replacement-for-ftp>. OS X and
Linux have ssh and scp installed by default in most cases. There are GUI
front-ends to both protocols on all the major operating systems, if you
need them.


Nice article.

However be aware that gftp (as recommended in this thread) supports
sftp; all you need to do is select SSH2 instead of FTP. Your connection
will be established via sftp - example from an actual gftp log w/user
and remote site obscured for obvious reasons:

Opening SSH connection to <remotesite>
Running program ssh -e none -l <user> -p 22 <remotesite> -s sftp
3: Protocol Initialization
<user>@<remotesite>'s password:
3: Protocol version 3
Successfully logged into SSH server <remotesite>


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