setting up ftp and sftp servers

[Goh Lip]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:18:31 -0700
Johnneylee Rollins <johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:



> > Johnny,
> > I have read that also somehwere but I use it >10 years and have
> > never ahd any problem with it. I would like to know what the not
> > safe aspect is. Of course don't publish it on the internet and have
> > a very restricted user list (in my case only myself and root). I
> > agree that username and password as security is not the safest
> > access control, but in 99.9% of the case, using a strong and long
> > enough password, it is safe. Joep
> >
> I wasn't talking secure from a hacking protection, I mean from a
> software development point of view. Last time I looked, it wasn't
> quite up to speed with 10.04. Here is a quote from the IRC bot for
> Ubuntu's IRC channels:
> /msg -FreeNode ubottu webmin
> [ubottu(~ubottu at ubuntu/bot/ubottu )] webmin is no longer supported in
> Debian and Ubuntu. It is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu
> packages handle configuration files, and is likely to cause unexpected
> issues with your system. See !ebox instead.
> /msg -FreeNode ubottu ebox
> [ubottu(~ubottu at ubuntu/bot/ubottu )] ebox is a web-based GUI interface
> for administering a server. It is designed to work with Ubuntu/Debian
> style configuration management. See
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/eBox
> 
> I hope this helps a bit.
> 
> ~SpaceGhost


Further to add...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebMin
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2873
http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/01/msg00124.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343897
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271505

Regards - Goh Lip