FTP help needed

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 16 15:05:14 UTC 2005


Claude Jones wrote:
> Can someone point me to a good howto or page that describes how to set 
> up FTP for a website? I just want to allow access to my website for 
> purposes of updating webpages, etc, from a remote computer... All the 
> links I'm getting hits to discuss how to set up a FTP site for file 
> sharing - that's not what I need for now. Or, if the explanation is 
> short, share it?

If you have sshd running on the web server (likely) then by default it 
will have an sftp server enabled and you can just use sftp to upload files.

The regular ftp protocol sends usernames and passwords in plain text 
over the wires and isn't the best way of doing this.

Paul.




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