On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600, Jason Hsu writes: > I understand that regular FTP has inferior security due to the lack of > encryption. So I'm looking for an alternative to use on my home > server. > > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP > over SSH? Or something else?
vsftpd is just rocking, but if I were you, I'd stick with OpenSSH. I'd create an "sftp" group for just FTP users, and jail SSH connections coming from users in "sftp" group into their home directory. (See here[1] for details.) Regards. [1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/chroot-users-with-openssh-an-easier-way-to-confine-users-to-their-home-directories/229 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/871v2e6hp1....@alamut.ozu.edu.tr
