Re: Is there digital certificate equivalent for FTP

[Matthew_S_Cramer () armstrong com]

clung () hotmail com wrote:

> Even though our FTP server is placed in a DMZ, we are exploring the
> possibility to install something like digital certificate services and SSL
> for SHTTP for FTP.
>
> Any comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated.


ssh supports using RSA keys for authentication, and ssh includes two ways to
copy files - sftp and scp.  scp may be depreciated now that 1.2.27 supports
sftp.  We force our web developers to use scp with RSA auth to transfer files to
a web/ftp server rather than just allowing normal ftp.


Matt