[ale] FTPD

[Ankur Chatterjee]

Well I'm learning that my customers aren't *NIX geeks like us. They just
want their website to be easily updated, and don't care about being hacked
until it happens, at which point they'd probably get angry at me again! :) I
believe it's simply the added effort of either using a text based ftp client
like sftp, or trying to track down a good graphical client that runs on a
Win32 platform and can handle SSH and sftp. If your customers are
knowledgable in any kind of *NIX environment, you shouldn't meet this sort
of resistance.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Frank
To: ale at ale.org
Zamenski
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:31 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] FTPD




> I feel silly bringing this up. I've been working with linux for years now,
> and I just upgraded a web server to 7.1, and neglected to enable FTP, in
> pursuit of more secure methods such as SFTP. Well the customers are
> revolting and shouting obscenities about Linux and SSH - so I'm trying to
> re-enable wu-ftpd 2.6.1. I installed the RPM, checked the configs, and all
> seems in place... I'm using xinetd, instead of inetd, could that be an
> issue? I even tried removing the RPM'd version, and compiling from source,
> and the daemon does not stay active, it simply exits without any status
> message and doesn't show up in a process list. Any input??
>
> - Ankur Chatterjee
>   Network Engineer
>   Five Star Communications
>   mobile: 678/612.5033
>   e-mail: ankur at 5sc.net
>

No solution, sorry. I just want to ask, why are they upset about SSH
and SFTP? Inconvenient? We have a similar project under
development at work on our Solaris FTP server (not my deal). I'm just
trying to anticipate the reaction of our external customers when it goes
live, and gauge whether or not the SA's are going to be getting into the
'help-desk' business, too.

Thanks.
-fgz


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