Re:Shutting down public FTP services
by throwaway2048 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:45PM
(#14200282)
filezilla supports SFTP just fine (nothing to do with FTP)
Re:Shutting down public FTP services
by TorKlingberg on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:53AM
(#14201509)
It also comes with bundled malware, so be careful.
Not entirely true. Sourceforge bundles things with their installers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849950
But you could always get a normal installer even then, and I think (don't quote me on that, I never really used SF) Sourceforge stopped doing that after their acquisition ?
Sourceforge stopped it, filezilla did not.
And Filezilla explicitly defended the sourceforge practice when it was still in place. They're a very shady project.
Re:Shutting down public FTP services
by SippinLean on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:31AM
(#14202753)
It's not just if you dl from sourceforge:
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php
>This installer may include bundled offers.
But the default is ftp. If you don't explicitly choose sftp and an attacker blocks the ssh port and spoofs an ftp server, FileZilla will happily send the password for the attacker to intercept.
Cpanel supports sftp too. Ftp it's just one option and can be disabled.
Re:Shutting down public FTP services
by corey_moncure on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @10:58PM
(#14200106)
How do you like to manage your files and your deployments?
Psst... Someone tell CPanel Inc and all the millions of horrid cPanel shared hosting providers which still promotes this nonsense as the default way to manage files. It is somewhat sad when you meet a new young fresh developer where deployment = filezilla.