[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the most secure FTP w/SSH?

[terry]

NTLUG wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 08:24, Bob Byron wrote:
> 
>>I need to setup ftp access to a linux server.  I would like to know
>>the most secure way to do this.  I want to make sure that the ftp
>>server is chroot'ed, hopefully a different root for each user.
>>
>>I want to use SSH to insure an encrypted connection.  Or, I am
>>open for suggestions.  I have seen that winSCP offers secure
>>access, but it has not been chroot'ed. 
>>
> 
> The SSH suite (includes SFTP - ssh like ftp, SSH - telnet like, and SCP
> - rcp like).  For the time being you are pretty much going to have to
> take one or the other.  Either take FTP and get the chroot (but you
> won't get a seperate one for each user) but use an unencrypted plain
> text protocol, or you use SSH/SFTP/SCP and get the secure protocol but
> not the chroot.  My suggestion would be go with SFTP or SCP then if/when
> ssh is ever chroot'ed you can migrate that functionality, but I wouldn't
> bypass it now, because of that.
> 

A free client for MS: Putty.  See:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/network/software.shtml#ssh


There's also SSH Information for Mac Systems at the above site.