Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:09:14 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Socketd <db@traceroute.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure FTPd Message-ID: <3FC428A9-D978-11D6-A2D9-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20021006.22051000.2959583665@rafter.>
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On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 15:05 US/Pacific, Socketd wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 10/6/02, 11:52:16 PM, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote regarding > Re: > Secure FTPd: > >> The problem with adding SSL to ftpd is the clients. You would have to >> create an ftp client with SSL added also. ssh's sftp has that >> capability and there are 2 generally available clients - sftp and scp. >> I believe there are clients for most computers. > > Well, all my users use windows and there a some ftp clients that loves > SSL (like CuteFTP). You would have to emulate their SSL interface - which is that provided by ssh's sftpd. It could be done, but would take some research. > >> qpopper provides SSL for POP3 which works with most of the common mail >> clients. You may have to provide a popper port for both 110 and 995 >> in >> order to pick up both the older and newer clients. I have had to >> provide both. > > Ok. Performance-wise all services should run their own SSL support, but > it there one for the default ftpd? Not that I am aware of. Everyone appears to be using ssh. However, it is lacking chroot support. > >> SSL can be used with sendmail. There is a lot of information >> available >> at www.sendmail.org. I have not tried that yet. Its on the list of >> things to do someday. > > Ok, but it is not widely used? No idea. The clients supposedly support it but I have never tried it. > > Br > socketd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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