[Hidden-tech] Secure FTP

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:18:32 -0400 Daniel Lieberman <daniel at daniellieberman.org> wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> I have a client who needs to be able to send and receive spreadsheets
> securely. The preferred solution is secure ftp, as that is what the people
> involved are comfortable with now and we would prefer not to make anybody
> learn anything new.
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> Any recommendations for hosted solutions at a reasonable price? Or other
> possible solutions - is this something we might be able to host on our own
> domain, for example? I don't see it as a service that our hosting company
> (Dreamhost) offers, but it may be.

If Dreamhost runs on Linux machines, then SSH is installed by default
(on all distros as far as I know).  If sshd is running sftp is
available, unless it has been disabled for some reason.

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