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Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'



On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 06:59:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:

> this is a very good point, but as far as i have been able to find,
> there is no suitable, secure, replacement for ftp (why!?!?!)

> 2) use ssh to tunnel the ftp connection.  I may be doing something
> wrong but i have never managed to get this to work.  this is also a
> somewhat obscure solution to propose to the clients. it also (again
> afaict) requires the user to have a interactive ssh account.  again
> this won't work for ftp only users. 

See the man pages for ssh-agent.

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