Re: Scripted FTP transfer



On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

Joe Dunning wrote:


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, ThreeStar wrote:

> > Better security is better, even if it's not the best security
> (whatever that means). SCP fits the simple scenario the poster laid
> out, and avoids sending login credentials over the Internet in clear
> text like FTP does.

There are FTP implementations available that support encryption. They
won't work through many firewalls, but as long as only one end has an
external firewall, they can be used.

Most of them are not, in fact, FTP.

Most, maybe. However, on my Gentoo boxes, FTP (net-ftp/ftp) is built with SSl support. However, this can be problematic, because, if one needs the NAT firewall to react properly to the ftp commands going across the firewall, it won't happen with an encrypted session.
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