Re: Anonymous FTP
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi all,
> Due to a bug in FTP, we're going to lose our anonymous ftp privileges at
> my place of work.
Out of curiosity, why are the FTP privileges going away?
> We depend heavily upon anonymous ftp to update certain files and such
> on a machine that is outside our firewall. What kind of replacements
> are available to allow unattended transfer of files from a secure
> network to an unsecure network?
It depends on the host on the unsecure network. If it's running Windows,
I don't know any way to do it. If it's running some type of unix, I've
used rsync (with ssh as the transport, ie "rsync -e ssh ...") with good
results.
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