FTP help needed
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Wed Mar 16 15:47:10 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
>
>> Can someone point me to a good howto or page that describes how to set
>> up FTP for a website? I just want to allow access to my website for
>> purposes of updating webpages, etc, from a remote computer... All the
>> links I'm getting hits to discuss how to set up a FTP site for file
>> sharing - that's not what I need for now. Or, if the explanation is
>> short, share it?
>
>
> If you have sshd running on the web server (likely) then by default it
> will have an sftp server enabled and you can just use sftp to upload files.
>
> The regular ftp protocol sends usernames and passwords in plain text
> over the wires and isn't the best way of doing this.
>
> Paul.
>
Thanks, Paul. I just tried this, and it looks like I've got to open Port
22 on the firewall. Do you know if sftp can be used from say NVU, to
publish a site?
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
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