[ale] Secure FTP?

[Ned Williams]

Marc wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> > > It's been working OK, and I love Muddle and think it does a superior job
> > > as an FTP daemon.  However, I'm  trying to do the Right Thing and
> > > eliminate FTP from my machine altogether and only do file transfer thru
> > > openSSH.   I know that there are a tiny handful of clients for Mac (non
> > > osX) and I can find several decent looking ones for windows, so that's
> > > one part of the battle won.
>
> My suggestion would be to let people use what they want and try for port
> redirection solutions.  On the PC checkout PuTTY, it is a SSH client that
> (I think) will allow you to forward selected IP's or ports over the SSH
> connection.  Search for this on tucows.
>
> Another cross-platform possibility is MindTerm.  Mindterm is a Java applet
> that can be launched from a web server, if you 'sign' the applet so it can
> run outside of the jave 'security sanbox' it can do port forwarding and
> v2.0 does sftp or scp (I think).  You can lookup mindterm on freshmeat,
> there are a couple of versions on there, and since your planning to use it
> with clients- make sure to use the GPLd version.
>
> Just a thought,
> --marct
> marct at mindspring.com
>
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don't forget pscp it can be downloaded separate of PuTTY and does a wonderful
straight forward job of scp

Ned


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