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toyg
on Jan 30, 2012
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FTP Must Die
SSH is a pain to secure properly, and the potential for mischief is huge. There is no
sudo
in FTP.
Hemospectrum
on Jan 30, 2012
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It's straightforward to permit SSH access but not shell logins....
if
you can administer user and group settings. I guess stuff like scponly (
http://freecode.com/projects/scponly
) is useless if you're running Windows server-side.
kree10
on Jan 30, 2012
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Not that I'd like to encourage it, but there
could
be a sudo in FTP, along the lines of WU-FTPd's infamous support for a "SITE EXEC" command.
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