opinions on replacing vsftpd with proftpd?

[Don Dupy]

I use PuTTY as well
Good secure client
I would have to agree with using PuTTY

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: fedora at maxxrad.net

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Stephen March wrote:

> Personally, I agree with Aly.    If you check out putty,
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
>
> There are free ssh / scp / sftp clients (Windows based).   I've been using
> putty
> for about a year now, and it has some pretty (easy to use) tunnelling
> features
> as well.
>
> I tunnel absolutely everything over SSH.   Plaintext in general - is
> obsolete :)
>
> Food for thought.
> ~Steve
>
>
> Quoting Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi at telus.net>:
>
> > > FTP is in the same class as TELNET... obsolete, redundant, less secure,
> > > etc... :)
> >
> >         I think that with ftp+ssl it would be slightly more secure that it
> used
> > to be, aka plain text. I would think that any security site conscious
> > site would want to use ssh based stuff, but for a plain transfer of
> > files such as iso's or putting stuff up on a site ftp+ssl combo would do
> > the trick.
> >
> >         There are many ftp clients out there, many free, but very few
> scp/sftp
> > clients.
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >
> >         Aly.
> >
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> >
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