Re: Are FTP Clients on unix boxes turned off?

From: Timothy J. Bogart (tbogart_at_frii.net)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:03:41 -0700

Divakar wrote:
> In one of my assignments, we are trying to propose a solution involving
> using ftp clients on unix boxes. I am trying to poll this group to see
> how unix sysadmins typically look at ftp clients on a unix box.
> 1. First of all, Are ftp clients available by default on all main unix
> platforms ? (Aix, Solaris, HPUX, Linux etc.)
> 2. Do sysadmins perceive using ftp clients on unix boxes as a security
> threat of some sort.
> Any comments in this area will be appreciated.
>
> Divakar
>

Do you really want to know about ftp? Or do you really want to know if
ftp is the right approach for your 'problem'?

Kind of hard to help you there since you didn't share the problem.

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