From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jul 30 4:59:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from venus3.ttnet.net.tr (venus3.ttnet.net.tr [212.156.4.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B5737B599 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alisoylu@yahoo.com) Received: from loner ([212.174.111.223]) by venus3.ttnet.net.tr (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FYIBOM00.V4N; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:55:34 +0400 From: "Ali Soylu" To: "Veaceslav Revutchi" , Subject: RE: web hosting, what ftp to use? Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:52:43 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Most ISPs don't care about the passwords being sniffed (or maybe they don't have another choice), and give plain ftp accounts. ALi > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Veaceslav Revutchi > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 2:42 PM > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: web hosting, what ftp to use? > > > > Greetings, > > I would like to know what is common practice in giving the web hosting > clients access to their virtual http servers to update their files. > > As ftp sends clear text passwords i see it inappropriate for at least > those > clients that use other ISPs to access their web server. What is the > standard > procedure that you guys use in this situation? Do you allow only sftp > or do you use something else or do you just not care > that a clients password gets sniffed and his web site gets > highjacked? > > Any advice is greatly appreciated. > > slava revutchi > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message