[NTLUG:Discuss] FTP/Samba security issues

[severian@pobox.com]

Howdy
   The obvious question that no one as asked you is:
   Can you get rid of ftp?

   vsftpd is a pretty good ftp server, but ftp is inherently less secure 
than scp.  Could an scp solution work for you?  You can promote the 
increased security at the same time you push for the Linux box to handle 
the requests.
  Good luck,
Ralph

In response to the welcome remarks of Richard Wolfe at 05:11 PM 8/12/03 -0500:
>What I'd like to do is set up another (this will be three!) Linux box on
>our LAN, and open port 21 through the router to it. This box would be
>running vsftpd, and I'd plan on setting up ftp accounts for all our