options for safe transfer of data to a server - ?

[Pierre Sahores]

Hi,

The sole solution i know is to own a dedicated server and to access it in SSH tunneling (SFTP) mode with only some open ports 22, 25, 80, 443, etc... you can tune as you want as long as you take care to keep the unwanted ports closed (alike FTP = 21).

There are probably ways to tune SFTP to let multiple users use it on a shared server but i did't try to setup this kind of config for yet.

Kind regards,
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Le 13 mars 2012 à 18:43, stephen barncard a écrit :

> simple ftp has no security for world accessible web sites. I just had all
> my sites compromised by Pakistani hackers, and will be spending much of the
> next two days cleaning up. I have since repented and am using SFTP with
> Dreamhost.
> 
> But that doesn't help those that want to use Livecode FTP.
> 
> There are external solutions that are used by Andre and Trevor, but are a
> bit more complicated and I haven't tried them.
> 
> One of those many feature requests pending.
> 
> On 13 March 2012 05:42, Curt Ford <cford at mailbox.sc.edu> wrote:
> 
>> My client wants to have a routine that records when a user first installs
>> the project, by incrementing an item in a text file on his server. We've
>> got it working well with ftp but I'm wondering if  whether sending the ftp
>> login & password over regular ftp is a security issue; some digging in the
>> archives makes me think that sftp isn't an option yet.
>> 
>> Would https:// be an option to write to a file on the server? Would that
>> require that they have an SSL certificate?
>> 
>> Any ideas on a good way to handle this?
>> 
>> Curt
>> 
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