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Who still uses FTP, for anything?Who still uses FTP, for anything?Posted Jul 6, 2011 13:22 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151)In reply to: Who still uses FTP, for anything? by Jonno Parent article: Vsftpd backdoor discovered in source code (The H)
If you don't restrict a regular ssh session the same way as sftp, then the restriction is useless anyway. If sftp is restricted to a certain directory, and a shell isn't, then I simply use the fish:/ protocol in KDE which simply uses basic shell commands on the server side, e.g. ls and cat. With that one can do all the things possible with sftp.
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Who still uses FTP, for anything? Posted Jul 7, 2011 11:52 UTC (Thu) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
Of course, but my use case is one where every user can access files in a subtree, but only admins can get a shell.
If you want admins to see the same url view for sftp (which is simplifies support enormously), you need two sshd daemons on the machine, which is quite complex to set up properly (need to hack initscripts), and the admins need to remember to supply a non-standard port number every time they want to get a shell.
Being able to configure a chroot path for sftp-sessions only would simplify this hugely.
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