From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 2: 8:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A544437B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:08:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16YlTj-0000r1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:08:31 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 983BF13040 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:08:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 8988922590; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:08:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:08:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations for secure file transfers... Message-ID: <20020207100830.GA7990@raggedclown.net> References: <20020207090047.63940.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020207090047.63940.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:00:47AM -0800, Tom Kersten wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested in setting up a way for any user on my > computer to login in to transfer files > remotely...basically ftp...but using something more > secure. This is where I need some advice...I am > running FreeBSD 4.5-Stable. I basically just want > simple file transferring services so users are able to > access their home directory, get, & put files from any > machine (windows envirnoments included) as long as it > has a secure client (using ssh, or whatever you > suggest). > > 1.) Which secure ftp server is the best...from your > experience...in setup, maintenance, use? > > You may want to consider sftp(d), this is in the same mould as ssh and scp (secure shell and secure cp). Also, amazingly there is a *free* sftp,sctp and ssh client for windows, do a google for "putty". I have only tried the secure shell part of it, which works very well. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message