FTP Server and Setup

[Ed Fletcher]

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philipacamaniac wrote:
| First, you probably don't want to use FTP, since it is unencrypted and
| sends a plain text password.
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| Second, setup an SSH login. It is a remote console login to your
| machine, but also allows for file transfers like FTP.
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| http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SSHHowto
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This looks quite interesting to me.  I'd like to use ssh to access my
server at home while I'm away.  However, I have a firewall.  Do I just
have to forward incoming requests on port 22 to the server?   Or is
there more to it than that?

Thanks,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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