Quoting Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Oh my, third time today, another person who is holding out hopes that > FTP is still useful as an "authenticated" file transfer protocol. If > you aren't doing anonymous FTP (where authentication isn't required), > there's no point in using FTP at all. Period. It's dangerous and > fraught with problems. I strongly suggest (yet again) that you ditch > FTP forever and use SCP or SFTP. Install OpenSSH and use the scp or > sftp utilities from there to do your file transfers. Under Win32, you > have PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) which > has SSH, SCP, and SFTP clients.
Amen to that. My list of SSH software for all OS platforms: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients My listing/review of ftp daemons with emphasis on anonymous-only operation: http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients Reasons why (anonymous) ftp is not obsolete: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/ftp-justification -- Cheers, "The front line of defense against such sophisticated Rick Moen viruses is a continually evolving computer operating [EMAIL PROTECTED] system that attracts the efforts of eager software developers." -- Bill Gates _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
