FTPS How To

[Matt]

freeSSHd is a little bit daunting for a novice user, last time I looked it was for the local (windows) machine. I wasn't sure if you could connect to a remote host with it. Never got to playing with it too much I suppose.

Are you planning on having them connect with a regular FTP program or what is the plan? I ask because the interface is exactly the same for FTP and SFTP and almost all the FTP'ers out there now support SFTP in the connection settings.

Less risky? I don't think so. SSH / SFTP encrypts all the data being transferred including username and password.

Easier? No, I don't see why it would be. The level of difficulty for both SFTP and FTPS is editing the connection setting in the FTP program to use one or the other. Outside of that, there is no noticeable difference to the end user, except that with SFTP they don't get disconnected for 1800 seconds vs 900 seconds on FTPS.

Bottom line is secure connections without plaintext passwords etc.

If that is the main concern SFTP is right for you and I consider it better than FTPS because of the disconnect issue with FTPS.


PS we had the site updated last night to say SFTP instead of FTPS