FTP Server and Setup

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 19:05 -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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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?

That should work.