On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:35PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> again, reading RHEL 7-beta docs and here:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-ssh-configuration.html
>
> one reads:
>
> "For SSH to be truly effective, using insecure connection protocols
> should be prohibited. Otherwise, a user's password may be protected
> using SSH for one session, only to be captured later while logging in
> using Telnet. Some services to disable include telnet, rsh, rlogin,
> and vsftpd."
>
> never having used sftp before, i'm confused ... isn't sftp simply a
> secure ftp client? and if so, why would one want to disable vsftpd? i
> would still need an ftp server, would i not? can someone clarify what
> that passage is saying? thanks.
>
> rday
AFAIK, sftp uses the sshd server, just as does ssh.
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