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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:52:43 +0300
From:      "Ali Soylu" <alisoylu@yahoo.com>
To:        "Veaceslav Revutchi" <vr@dnt.md>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: web hosting, what ftp to use?
Message-ID:  <NDBBKGNNKAMGGACJPDPOOEMFCOAA.alisoylu@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007301427340.36955-100000@zeus.dnt.md>

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Most ISPs don't care about the passwords being sniffed (or maybe they don't have another choice), and give plain ftp accounts.

ALi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Veaceslav Revutchi
> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 2:42 PM
> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
> Subject: web hosting, what ftp to use?
> 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I would like to know what is common practice in giving the web hosting
> clients access to their virtual http servers to update their files.
> 
> As ftp sends clear text passwords i see it inappropriate for at least 
> those
> clients that use other ISPs to access their web server. What is the
> standard 
> procedure that you guys use in this situation? Do you allow only sftp
> or do you use something else or do you just not care
> that a clients password gets sniffed and his web site gets
> highjacked?
> 
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> 
> slava revutchi
> 
> 
> 
> 
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