[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the most secure FTP w/SSH?

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On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 08:24, Bob Byron wrote:
> I need to setup ftp access to a linux server.  I would like to know
> the most secure way to do this.  I want to make sure that the ftp
> server is chroot'ed, hopefully a different root for each user.
> 
> I want to use SSH to insure an encrypted connection.  Or, I am
> open for suggestions.  I have seen that winSCP offers secure
> access, but it has not been chroot'ed. 
> 
The SSH suite (includes SFTP - ssh like ftp, SSH - telnet like, and SCP
- rcp like).  For the time being you are pretty much going to have to
take one or the other.  Either take FTP and get the chroot (but you
won't get a seperate one for each user) but use an unencrypted plain
text protocol, or you use SSH/SFTP/SCP and get the secure protocol but
not the chroot.  My suggestion would be go with SFTP or SCP then if/when
ssh is ever chroot'ed you can migrate that functionality, but I wouldn't
bypass it now, because of that.

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Woody

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