FTP help needed

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Wed Mar 16 15:47:10 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> 
>> Can someone point me to a good howto or page that describes how to set 
>> up FTP for a website? I just want to allow access to my website for 
>> purposes of updating webpages, etc, from a remote computer... All the 
>> links I'm getting hits to discuss how to set up a FTP site for file 
>> sharing - that's not what I need for now. Or, if the explanation is 
>> short, share it?
> 
> 
> If you have sshd running on the web server (likely) then by default it 
> will have an sftp server enabled and you can just use sftp to upload files.
> 
> The regular ftp protocol sends usernames and passwords in plain text 
> over the wires and isn't the best way of doing this.
> 
> Paul.
> 
Thanks, Paul. I just tried this, and it looks like I've got to open Port 
22 on the firewall. Do you know if sftp can be used from say NVU, to 
publish a site?

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA




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