On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ashley T. Howes Ph.D. wrote:
I was wondering if anyone knows of a secure FTP server. By secure I mean the difference between telnet and SSH (so all traffic is encrypted in transmit). I briefly saw references to scp (part of SSH) on a google search. As anyone used this or could comment on alternatives?
I use scp and with ssh-keys it is very useful, the other alternative is to use rsync with the -e ssh option (turns on ssh as the transport method).
With ssh keys it has a private/public key combo so you can authenticate without passwords (very useful for scripting and backing up /etc/ of public webservers etc.) basically all you need is the sshd running on the machine you want to connect to and thats it. If you have used rcp before it is practically the same for scp.
although this is not strictly an ftp server, would it fit your requirements?
Adam