If you mean they're windows users, direct them to putty, it does port forwarding and all that good stuff. Ssh.com has a free client too, I believe.
-----Original Message----- From: Glenn English [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sftp vs ftp with ssl On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:53, subscribe wrote: > Hi list, > I've been trying to get up an secure ftp server on linux platform, > pureftpd. > This utillity support both sftp and ftp tls/ssl. Is there anyone who has > any experiance with secure ftp servers on any platforms? any > suggestions? > or pointers? Im not sure how firewalls will react on these two types, > regarding > ports etc? I've been using sftp (and rsync via ssh) for some time now (OpenSSH on Linux). My firewall has just one hole in it: TCP, port 22. Login from the Internet is allowed only by RSA key. I trust it completely, and I've never had a hint of trouble from it. I claim you don't need anything more than the OpenSSH package (and maybe rsync). The only problem I've had is that I still have to keep ftp around for some of the webmasters with *nix-challenged software. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
