Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> what you mean is sftp. >> >> No, FTP-S. FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990. sftp is a part of ssh >> and uses it's encryption mechanisms. > > what I SHOULD have said is " what I 'THINK' you mean", and obviously I was > wrong

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/06/2010 05:33 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed October 6 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> so, is it better to ftp over SSL or sftp using ssh? >> >> As others have said, chrooting FTPS is easier than chrooting ssh and its >> kin. sftp also infers ssh must be available as well. I don't know i

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 6 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > > so, is it better to ftp over SSL or sftp using ssh? > > As others have said, chrooting FTPS is easier than chrooting ssh and its > kin.  sftp also infers ssh must be available as well.  I don't know if > that's true or not.  If it is and someone guesse

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
ject: Re: best FTP server for web server > > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> what you mean is sftp. >> >> No, FTP-S. FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990. sftp is a part of ssh >> and uses it's encryption mechanisms. > > what I SHOULD have s

RE: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-06 Thread Maxime Alarie
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright Sent: 04 October 2010 16:23 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: best FTP server for web server On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 04 of October 2010, Alain Roger wrote: > i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with > a web server. A very simple, secure and scalable FTP server is PureFTPd, you may want to take a look at it. -- Michael Iatrou -- users mailing list u

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon October 4 2010, Sam Sharpe wrote: > That depends on the circumstances - I personally prefer SFTP, because > most Linux machines already have an SSH server running. > > However, there are complications, such as needing to chroot users > (historically hard with OpenSSH), needing to allow SFTP

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 October 2010 21:23, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >> > what you mean is sftp. >> >> No, FTP-S.  FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990.  sftp is a part of ssh >> and uses it's encryption mechanisms. > > what I SHOULD have said is " what I 'THINK' you mean",

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > > what you mean is sftp. > > No, FTP-S.  FTP over SSL using port 989 and 990.  sftp is a part of ssh > and uses it's encryption mechanisms. what I SHOULD have said is " what I 'THINK' you mean", and obviously I was wrong:) so, is it better to ftp over

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon October 4 2010, Sam Sharpe wrote: > > what you mean is sftp.. for windows a great client is winscp. I used it > > for years, along with putty, which you can find anywhere, just google > > putty.exe . both programs use the secure port 22. > > No... he means FTPS... like he said... > > http://

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/04/2010 12:36 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL). vsftpd supports both FTP >> and FTP-S. Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp, >> kasablanca, etc.). > > what you mean is sftp. No, FTP-S. FTP ov

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 4 October 2010 20:36, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP >> and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp, >> kasablanca, etc.). > > what you mean is sftp.. for windows a gr

RE: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Maxime Alarie
Cartwright Sent: 04 October 2010 15:37 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: best FTP server for web server On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP > and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also suppo

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote: > Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP > and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp, > kasablanca, etc.). what you mean is sftp.. for windows a great client is winscp. I used it for years, along with pu

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/04/2010 10:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 13:55:46 +0200, >Alain Roger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with a >> web server. >> basically i read a lot about proftpd but i have some problem with support. >> Q

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 13:55:46 +0200, Alain Roger wrote: > Hi, > > i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with a > web server. > basically i read a lot about proftpd but i have some problem with support. > Question stay unanswered :-( > so is there another good ft

best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with a web server. basically i read a lot about proftpd but i have some problem with support. Question stay unanswered :-( so is there another good ftp server which could make a deal ? the idea behind is to have a web server

RE: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Maxime Alarie
I second that vsftp is very good, and easy to install. From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Jason Brown Sent: 04 October 2010 08:00 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: best FTP server for web server

Re: best FTP server for web server

2010-10-04 Thread Jason Brown
vsFTP On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Alain Roger wrote: Hi, i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with a web server. basically i read a lot about proftpd but i have some problem with support. Question stay unanswered :-( so is there another good ftp server which