Re: FTP-client for Windows, safety concerns

["Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet)" <nd%syndicat.com@localhost>]

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herbert langhans <herbert.raimund%langhans.com.pl@localhost> schrieb:

>There also remains some homework for me. I will take a closer look to
>vsftpd. It's a good point with the increasing amount of
>Wifi-connections, thats quite a good spot to sniff for passwords. I
>didn't think of that issue before ...

We have some very good experiences with ProFTPd - especially the flexibility of 
security configuration features/options was very helpful for us, i.e. with 
virtual hosts etc., but ProFTPd should held updated even if his long history 
had nearly no serious security bugs/holes. But vsftpd is nice too if the 
features fit all your needs.

In case you want to switch over to sftp or ftps (if you send client binaries 
out to your users) you may take a look at the famous "PuTTY" (mainly known for 
his excellent windows ssh client, but not only...) programs which could easily 
used as very small downloadable binaries without the need of any installation 
on windows an Mac afaik too. Putty is available for win, mac and others as Open 
Source and very spreaden and reviewed too.

Not shure how you may bundle it with your preconfigurations for your users.

just my two cents here...

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html


hth
good luck,


Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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