Am 06.04.2021 um 12:08 schrieb Helge Oldach <free...@oldach.net>: > > Stefan Bethke wrote on Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:29:34 +0200 (CEST): >> Strato did disable FTP access over a year ago, > > Actually it was effective October 20, 2020.
You are correct; I was remembering the announcement, not the switch off. > and instructed customers on how to use SSH-based access instead, > > They have a completely different incentive (avoiding cleartext passwords > over the Internet, and reportedly they had a number of cases where > customers where affected by password snooping) than a local admin person > on a local network not exposed to the public. > >> so it's definitely possible, and people are moving towards more secure >> protocols, even when (non-technical) end users are affected. > > No doubt about that. Any information about the ticket volume triggered > by this deprecation? I have no insight into Strato's operations, but from having to support a bunch of non-technical people who are customers, I'd say it was relatively painless, because Strato provided good instructions, and the (non-techincal) customers were using GUI clients already anyway where they only needed to switch from FTP to SFTP. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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