On Wednesday 04 June 2003 19:41, Richard wrote: <snipping post>
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 04:41, Ian David Laws wrote: <snipping post>
Why use ftp when sftp or scp is just as good. (Putty for M$ machines)
Primarily cause I'm a bit dumb!. I just learned how to do sftp and scp after I setup my vsftp server. Will probably disable that eventually. Since I'm only using it for my local net there's not much chance of someone screwing with my machines.
Beeing a newbie is not the same as being dumb. On the other hand, there is always the possibility to a dumb thing. So I try to plan accordingly, and the first point is not to trust myself that much ;-) Shit happens and mistakes are done. If you have the possibility, just dedicate one machine as an expendable server, and protect the other machines (if any) with their own firewall. It may quite an old machine, since it does not need to run anything fancy like X. And yeah, don't trust does techies at the help desk that much. Not because their "nasty" or "evil", but quite simply that they don't have all that much time to help you in this. Besides, not all of them are that well versed in how to secure a machine with a _particular_ operating system. Cheers, Sigfred.