How Important Is A Secure Transfer Protocol (SSH/SFTP)?
Jul 25, 2008
I'm looking for a relatively cheap shared host, but I'm having trouble finding one with SSH/SFTP transfers. Everyone has FTP, but my concern is that FTP itself is not secure. I was reminded of this recently: http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/14/dump-ftp. Wikipedia documents this as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp#Security_problems. So with FTP, my passwords would be transmitted in the clear. (If I'm wrong, please correct me!)
I've been looking at Godaddy or 1&1*. 1&1 has a plan with SSH access that's about twice the cost of the plan I'm looking at. I'm not sure it's worth double the cost.
I'm to the point where I think I've overthought the variety of hosts, but in my estimation it's an important feature. Does anyone (dis)agree that it's important? Any other ideas of hosts?
*I was looking seriously at Bluehost also until I read some of their recent shenanigans here; thanks to everyone here for discussing their problems!
Also, to avoid the inevitable question of what I'm looking for in a host:
100 GB of space
1000 GB of bandwidth/month
Linux-based server
Apache server
10 MySQL databases
PHP (preferably 5)
Python support
Some sort of control panel interface
Good support reputation, preferably ticket-based and with chat support
Automated or easy Wordpress installation would certainly be nice.
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Nov 13, 2008
A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol..
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Apr 26, 2007
I am unable to find how to resume file transfor via sftp and command line:
I use PUT command to upload file, but when connections fails and I start again, the transfer starts from its beginning - how could I made it to check the uploaded part and then resume?
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Jan 21, 2008
I am running a large scale business and some time I have to transfer large and very important data files to my business partner. I fear about my data because there are many of my business competitors who will definitely try to steal my important data. So there is huge amount of risk involved in sharing my important data on Internet. I recently heard about secure file transfer technique from my friend who is working in well established software company. Does anyone have any idea about what is Secure File Transfer (SFT) service and how does it work?
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Jan 22, 2007
i have a dedicated server
i install CSF ( firewall )
CSF give me Security Warning ( Check SSHv1 is disabled )
CSF Note : You should disable SSHv1 by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and setting: Protocol 2
How i can disable SSHv1 and set protocol 2?
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Mar 18, 2007
how to set-up SMPP server for premium SMS purposes.
I got technical descriptions from mobile operators which say that it will work using TCP/IP connections and my server must support SMPP protocol.
How do I make my server to support SMPP protocol?
smsforum.net provides some APIs, test tools for download:
[url]
pear.php.net provides
1. Net_SMPP: SMPP v3.4 protocol implementation
2. Net_SMPP_Client: SMPP v3.4 client
It looks like this: my client sends SMS to the premium SMS number. Mobile operator makes connection to my server and transfers the content of this SMS. My server writes information to MySQL and returns answer depending of the SMS content. Mobile operator returns SMS to the user which contains information generated by my server.
I am getting lost. I don't understand what I have to install to make al this possible.
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May 6, 2008
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Dec 6, 2008
I found a problem with the scheduled rysnc ...
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The error:
building file list ... rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes: phase "send_file_entry" [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
multiplexing overflow 1:1075
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What should that be ? I didn't change anything in my server ...
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May 19, 2009
My new router ZyWall USG 300 supports IPsec, OpenVPN and L2TP for VPN protocol.
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Jun 17, 2008
"Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"
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Can anyone think of another reason why this would be coming up? It's running fine on 3 other PCs that I run as a backup. I've dropped the database twice and rebuilt it twice, still with the same error. Ditto for the user/pass.
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Nov 5, 2014
We are hosting a Git server (using Gitolite v3). Our users are interacting with git over an https connection. Here's the relevant versions of software:
Apache 2.4.6
OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
git version 1.8.5.3 (Server Side)
git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0 (Client Side)
Users sometimes encounter an SSL error message when attempting to run git commands that talk to the server (e.g. clone, push, pull). The error message is "Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to servername:443". Users can usually simply try the command again, and it will then work successfully.
I've managed to capture a bit more output by setting the GIT_CURL_VERBOSE flag, see output below.
Code:
* Couldn't find host servername in the _netrc file; using defaults
* Adding handle: conn: 0x2587c40
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
[Code] .....
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Apr 3, 2007
to set up a batch file on our server (Windows Server 2003) to upload an xml document to the web everyday. Due to nature of our business, we require the ftp to be secure (SFTP), so i need a DOS SFTP add-on: any suggestions.
It is also a requirement that we PAY for it (management?! ),
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Oct 14, 2009
we have a WHM account... we have different accounts on that...and for each account, there are add-on domains underneath that. (i hope you know what i mean)
and we set it up to use only SFTP to connect to server. no FTP.
after we have set it up that way, it seems that we can only connect to SFTP using 1 user/pass for each account... that is the same user/pass we use for Cpanel of each account.
say, i have Account A... under Account A, i have addon domains: A1.com, A2.com, A3.com...
setting SFTP only on that server, all those addon domains of Account A, can only use 1 user/pass to login to SFTP which is the cpanel access also of Account A.
question is.... is this behavior correct??
how can we create a different user for each add-on domain?
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May 1, 2008
I'm trying to upload about 200 Gb of data and it became clear to me to route it out a specific connection sftp was the way to go.. (the ssh2 kind)
The problems I'm now having is that the 2 applications I rely on cannot get the job done.. CuteFTP Pro 8 can't even begin to get it done it crashes, errors out etc. and for while there it looked like the free program WinSCP was going to get it done but now it errors out/crash's and while it actually did get about 1/4 of the data done, it seems to think when it reported it done.. it got it all (that is when it doesn't crash for no reason, these crashes only occurred mainly when I tried to get it do 3/4's or the rest of the data)
So anyway.. recommend me a good client app if you can.. (that does real folder sync transfers) preferably ssh2/sftp, I'm uploading to dreamhost if that makes a difference I assume it doesn't though..
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Mar 3, 2007
I've noticed that on most servers I use, downloading a file over SFTP is about 4x slower than downloading over HTTP. Can anyone tell me why and if it's possible to tune the SFTP server?
- neither the server nor my desktop shows significant CPU use so it isn't the processing overhead of encryption.
- The symetric key ciphers used should not increase the number of bytes transmitted.
- The file being transferred is already bzipped so the HTTP isn't faster due to compression.
- I'm using OpenSSH on Linux / FreeBSD server side, and WinSCP on Windows XP / Vista client side.
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direct root logon to a server is disabled; using another login, obviously. However, I need to be able to SFTP files from my computer to a directory on the server using said login - yet it does not have correct permissions, evidently, and therefore can't even see the directory I need to be able to SFTP files to.
Tried CHOWNing the directory with that usename, giving it 777 permissions, etc.
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Jul 28, 2009
i am not able to get connect to SFTP server
domain : testing.com
user : test@testing.com
pass : 123456
port : 7256
& getting following error
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Status: Connecting to testing.com:7256...
Response: fzSftp started
Command: open "test@testing.com@testing.com" 7256
Command: Trust new Hostkey: Yes
Command: Pass: ************
Error: Authentication failed.
Error: Critical error
Error: Could not connect to server
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note that we are able to get connected to the server with FTP using same username & password
i asked our data centre regarding this issue & they suggested to use root password , but we don't want to give root password to the client
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May 19, 2009
I have it setup and have a user created that can upload files to my website.
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When using FTP in the same way we did not have this problem as the file that was uploaded would automatically be owned by the cpanel website user.
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I just got a barebone server. Installed apache2, php5, mysql,phpmyadmin.
I only have SSH access to the server. I wish to use CoreFTP to transfer some webpage files to /var/www folder. I can login the server using CoreFTP's SSH/SFTP and it displays all the files and directories, but I do not have the permission to write.
My question is, how do I give myself permission to write? Here is the id of my user:
uid=1000(charlie) gid=1000(charlie) groups=1000(charlie),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),110(lpadmin),111(sambashare),112(admin)
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Aug 18, 2009
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Aug 29, 2007
Most of my background is the Linux/Mac world, but I do have ample Windows skill set, just not as refined or aware of all the available applications in Windows world, geared toward Joe User.
My accountant needs to run two sets of backups. First, he wants to backup his documents to an offsite location (space on his web hosting service) and he wants them to be encrypted on the web hosting server, which is understandable and recommended.
Short of installing TrueCrypt and using Filezilla with a manual process , is there any free or low-cost (but well supported) that would automatically upload revised documents and data files in encrypted form? This would not be very much data, just simple documents and accounting data files.
Secondly, he wants to have a "snapshot" of his HD to a USB portable drive (standard 2.5 HD). On Linux, I'd recommend Rsync, on Mac, Rsync or SuperDuper (and others), but on Windows, any recommendations? I see Unison, etc. I would just want it to update any files that have changed to make subsequent backups run much faster, such as only 15-18 minutes (depending on amount of data changed) and make the drive bootable, so in the event he looses his HD in his laptop, he could boot from the USB portable drive and be back up and running.
While I know I could easily figure out all this on a more manual basis, looking for things that would be friendly for Joe User to use and/or be something that can be setup and would run pretty much on it's own, assuming the backup drive was connected or system was on the Internet to upload the files, etc.
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Oct 5, 2007
I'm not that confident with installing or compiling on Linux and I guess that's where the problem is. So any assistance may go along way.
Basically I am running a AMD64 on a Fedora Core server. I noticed when I wrote a php script which I want to sftp some data to another server I was getting a message saying that :
Quote:
Call to undefined function ssh2_connect()
I thought this was a bit strange as I usually have had this feature running without a problem on other machines... Anyway after investigating the problem it looked as though I needed to add a couple of extensions 'OpenSSL' and 'libssh2' as specified on this page :[url].
I downloaded them and OpenSSL appeared to install. However when trying to install libssh2 I received the following:
Quote:
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(md5_dgst.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
Obviously I can't continue onward until I get this problem fixed, but have been searching around for near 7 hours now and seem to be chasing my tail? Can anyone point on what I am doing wrong?
BTW within the libssh2-0.17 dir I am first running ./config then make then make install.
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