On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:24 +0200, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > > > The point remains that while telnet/ftp should be treated as deprecated > > Why is that exactly? > > There is no replacement for ftp, and I don't know of any problems with it? > > Please enlighten me. > > ftp == good enough for public upload and download in a chroot > environment. Pure ftp isn't suitable for this. MIM-attacks and data-corruption en route. There's no need for a chroot, though, as long as you're using a sane ftpd. > scp == the preferred method for data transfer between machines. Nearly > as fast on semi-modern machines. pscp == the windows equivalent for > regault *NIXX scp. Unfortunately, scp requires a shell access, doesn't play well with caching proxies, and is in fact quite resource-hungry. But the main objection is, ssh provides the presentation layer functionality on the application layer. Which is why you really should not preach it as a panacea. Cheers, -- Jan
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