FTP help needed

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> Thanks, Paul. I just tried this, and it looks like I've got to open Port 
> 22 on the firewall. Do you know if sftp can be used from say NVU, to 
> publish a site?

I don't *think* nvu supports sftp at the moment.

Paul.