Douglas Muth on 8 Jun 2011 17:15:55 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] ftp on Linode


On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>
> I /have/ to set up ftp on a linode server for a customer to transfer files.  To
> prevent the inevitable script kiddie attacks I'd like to restrict ftp to a
> single IP or an IP range.
>
[snip]

People are *still* using FTP?  I'm astonished.

Why not SFTP?  Filezilla supports it (if your client is into GUIs),
and OpenSSH provides an SFTP server.

-- Doug
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