Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:35:35PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: >> [*] Please you one last holdout using our ancient FTP service, let's >> move to the 21st century and use SFTP, please? > > Last week, we decommissioned an ancient server[1] and then got a call > two days later from an academic complaining that his web site had > disappeared. One of my predecessors had set him up with an arrangement > where he FTPed his files to this ancient server, then the actual web > host ran a daily cron job to scp files into production.
Aren't academics grand? :) > We somehow managed to convince him that the easiest solution would be > for him to use SFTP directly to the web server instead, and thus my > last FTP user fell. Well, at least he was okay with change. Many academics aren't (and it's a right pain to deal with them - 'son, I've had tenure since The War*') *OK, maybe not quite that long ... :) -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281