On Saturday 04 November 2006 23:36, Lord Sauron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been setting up my webserver using Gentoo and so far it's been
> really smooth.  Then I remembered that it really helps to have FTP
> (duh!)
>

Who uploads stuff to this webserver? Just you?

> So I want to keep things secure (I've been working on that - I've been
> taking the advice of the people at the Silicon Valley Linux User's
> Group) and decided that this fish protocol (which I've been told is
> FTP tunneled through SSH) is a good thing, and since I've already got
> SSH working I decided it's be worth a shot.

If you want secure copying, I'd look at sftp or scp, both part of the openssh 
package (iirc). They're command-line only, I think (there might be a UI 
client or kioslave for them) but they are secure.

Also, just to clear it up, FISH isn't ftp-over-ssh (called secure FTP, which 
is also different from FTPS and SFTP). FISH only requires SSH, with no 
special server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferrer_over_shell_protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP#FTP_over_SSH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP

Robert
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