Re: Removing clear-text passwords

["Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@tid.es>]

For ftp you have sftp of SSH, then you would have a replace for telnet and
ftp.

There is also ftp-ssl, patching ftp servers with SSL support. SSH has been
made with security in mind, ftp servers normally lack of security and suffer
from many bugs...It is up to you to choose any of these posibilities.

As a drawback, there is no GUI client under linux for SSH, but there is one
for Windows, from www.ssh.com, you can give it a try.

HTH

Miguel

Greg Kilfoyle ha escrito:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up my server so that no clear text
> passwords are used to access the system.
>
> The server is used (by others) via the following
> access methods:
>
>   - POP3 email
>   - IMAP email
>   - web (including web mail)
>   - ftp (for uploading files, mainly web pages)
>
> Most of my users have windows desktops, so I'm limited
> to SSL/TLS for securing mail server access. I like
> digest-md5, which evolution supports, but Outlook
> doesn't support this.
>
> For web access, SSL/TLS works fine.
>
> I don't know what to do for ftp. Can SSL/TLS be used
> with ftp and do windows applications, such as
> FrontPage support it?
>
> Another approach is to have ftp use a different
> password than the one used for email - not sure how to
> do this.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks, Greg.
>
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