Re: Securely connecting to FTP

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2011-10-25 BH wrote:
> On 25/10/2011 7:23 PM, Benjamin Betsalel wrote:
> > SFTP on port 990(different protocol entirely-probably not supported
> > by ISP I would guess.
>
> That's correct, SFTP isn't FTP but it uses SSH as the transport.

Port 990/tcp is normally FTPS (i.e. FTP over SSL), not SFTP.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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