FTP help needed
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 16 15:55:37 UTC 2005
Claude Jones wrote:
> 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?
I don't *think* nvu supports sftp at the moment.
Paul.
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