On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server > for Gentoo? > > My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building > websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web > server and give him his own directory to play with. > > I have never had a need for ftp since I have always used ssh. > However, I want to make it as easy as possible for him to learn web > page design, so that is why I thought ftp would be the easiest and > most supported by tools. He uses winXP and I think Nvu can publish to > ftp. If he really gets into building websites, he wants to purchase > something like dreamweaver. > > >From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow > > someone > > to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. > I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses > tcp wrappers. > > Thanks for any guidance,
What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
