[lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server

[Glenn Murray]

Hi George,

I'm not trying to secure a rotten protocol.  I'm trying to meet a
legal requirement.
The actual security is another issue;  in this case if it's good enough for the
lawyers it's good enough for me.

Cheers,
Glenn

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:00 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com> wrote:
> I'll be the lone dissenting voice. You're trying to secure a rotten
> protocol. Why not just use SSH/SFTP? Pretty much an reasonably current FTP
> client is going to support SSH.
>
> George Sexton
> MH Software, Inc.
> 303 438-9585
> www.mhsoftware.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-
>> bounces at lug.boulder.co.us] On Behalf Of Glenn Murray
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:14 PM
>> To: Linux User's Group Boulder
>> Subject: [lug] Making an HTTPS tunnel to an FTP server
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if someone on this list had any experience with this
>> problem.  I have a ProFTPD server running on port 21 behind a
>> firewall.  I'm like to create an HTTPS tunnel through the firewall to
>> ProFTPD so that users outside the firewall can connect to ProFTPD
>> using the same ProFTPD credentials as inside the firewall.  I
>> understand that another set of credentials is necessary to set up the
>> tunnel.  The odd thing here is that (at this point) it has to be
>> HTTPS, and not FTPS, SFTP, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Glenn
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