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Subject:    [Proftpd-user] ftps or sftp?
From:       Mike Seda <maseda () unc ! edu>
Date:       2007-09-24 19:35:59
Message-ID: 46F8119F.5010704 () unc ! edu
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Hi All,
I recently setup a few Samba shares, which my group uses quite a bit.

Samba is blocked at the campus border routers. Therefore, my users 
tunnel Samba through VPN when they are off-campus. Unfortunately, VPN is 
not an option for certain off-campus users.

For these off-campus users, I setup a ProFTP (FTPS) server for them to 
access (read/write) the Samba shares. This works out well, and preserves 
the special permissions, i.e. umask and group ownership of the Samba 
files and subdirectories.

Someone recently asked why I didn't use SFTP. I told them that there are 
numerous roadblocks to setting up a shared directory space accessible 
(read/write) via SFTP since SFTP does not preserve the aforementioned 
special permissions (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1310) 
without a patch (http://sftpfilecontrol.sourceforge.net).

Basically, am I taking the right approach to use FTPS versus SFTP 
(patched)?

I see many organizations replacing FTP with SFTP. Is FTP going to be 
supported for a while? Once I give this service off to users, I will 
have to support it for quite a while.

Best,
Mike

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