Christopher Reagoso wrote:
Looking for a FAQ on using OpenSSH to create an inbound secure tunnel
to an insecure FTP server on a Windows 2003 server host.
Any good references I've been missing...?
As far as protocols go, FTP is a pain in the butt, which is one of the
reasons SFTP exists.
The problem is that you won't be able to set up one tunnel to handle all
the connections (either one inbound and one outbound in the case of
active FTP, or two inbound in the case of passive). In the first case
you have an outbound connection to a random high port you probably won't
be able to predict at the time you're setting up your tunnel, and in the
second you're going to have a connection coming in from some random high
port on the client to some random high port on the server that, again,
you won't know at the time you need to set up your tunnel.
You'd probably be a lot better off with SFTP, or one of the FTP servers
that supports SSL.
