Nils Freydank <nils.freyd...@posteo.de> writes: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2017 19:04:06 +0200 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> [...] >> I fail to see why FTP needs to be replaced: it works, it is >> supported, it is secure when used with care, it is damn fast. > > I’ll just drop the somewhat popular rant “FTP must die“[1] and a follow-up > discussion about it[2]. IMHO the main reasons are missing data integrity and > authentication security issues. The latter one can be solved with FTPS[3] - > but honestly > I never saw FTPS somewhere actually used in the wild.
I've done it that way because I didn't want unencrypted transfers and sftp appears to be deprecated. It's working fine, and I don't want to replace it unless there were a better solution. > > > [1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie > [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251907 > [3] i.e. FTP over SSL/TLS (not to mix up with SFTP, which comes from the SSH > family) > > Greetings, > Nils -- "Didn't work" is an error.
