From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 10 14:39:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5791065690 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:39:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE188FC1D for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n6AEdu55047289 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6AEduM6076994 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6AEdtvX076992; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:55 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Steve Bertrand Message-ID: <20090710143954.GE63413@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1247235024.5167.1324439995@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4A575070.2050904@ibctech.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A575070.2050904@ibctech.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:39:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: RS Wood , freebsdquestions Subject: Re: FTP Server for individual client spaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:39:59 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 10), Steve Bertrand said: > RS Wood wrote: > > Finally, I'm aware FTP has inherent security liabilities as passwords > > cross the net in clear text, but I'm not convinced casual users on > > Windows boxes will be able to manage fun stuff like SSH connections or > > alternative software, like SCP. > > Provide them a link to a client software that uses SFTP. I use WinSCP > (portable), which defaults to SFTP, and provides the server, username and > password fields as soon as it is launched. WinSCP is good. Other nice free SFTP clients are FileZilla (has Windows, OS X and Unix versions) and muCommander (Java so it will run on anything). http://www.winscp.net/ http://www.filezilla-project.org/ http://www.mucommander.com/ -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com