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I need the best way to access a webserver to upload/modify a PHP script. The website contains very sensitive information, gaining unauthorized access to this server and modifying files would lead to an extremely huge financial loss.
I gues… Continue reading Recommended secure option for uploading files to web server from a dynamic IP?
I have a simple file server running on a small Ubuntu machine that facilitates file sharing and 2 way folder syncing between my and my girlfriend’s computers through SFTP over a private network.
The setup works great for my purposes, and I… Continue reading At-rest encryption. Use SFTP log-in credentials to access encrypted drive or folder
I have a simple file server running on a small Ubuntu machine that facilitates file sharing and 2 way folder syncing between my and my girlfriend’s 4 computers through SFTP over a private network.
The setup works great for this purpose. I … Continue reading At-rest encryption. Use SFTP log-in credentials to unlock/decrypt encrypted drive or folder on an Ubuntu Linux server
I know there are some standards for transferring data securely such as HTTPS for web applications, or SPC & SFTP for secure file transfers.
Encrypting files using PGP is a way to encrypt files during emails transfers.
I want to add a l… Continue reading Standard for encrypt files before transfer them over internet
I recently discovered the problem with Percent-encoding.
It makes perfectly sense when we are dealing with such problem in a browser scenario. But I don’t get why a software like WinSCP can be affected by the same issue.
In my opinion the … Continue reading Percent-encoding in WinSCP in SFTP password, why?
Can I use Forcepoint Security Manager 8.5 (WebSense) as an http proxy for my SFTP client connections to external Servers?
Currently when doing http requests I’m able to specify an http proxy to fetch external resources (Ex. google.maps) an… Continue reading Does Forcepoint Security Manager 8.5 (WebSense) allows SFTP petitions?
I am still learning about SSH, SFTP and private/public keys. My elementary understanding of keys is that the private key should remain on the machine it was generated on and never be shared.
I have a Lightsail instance that I would like to… Continue reading Why does Lightsail require the server’s private key to connect via SFTP?
I’m writing a little program that downloads some basic data, consolidates it into a CSV and drop it to an SFTP server. I’m told that I need to generate a pem file. My search online suggests that pem is a private/public key pairing and that… Continue reading How do I create a pem file that I can use in a console app to authenticate to an SFTP service?
Note that this question is not about how to do chroot or make an account SFTP only. The question is about whether there are specific ways for a sysadmin to check if a chrooted and SFTP-only account is correctly set.
Usually I do chroot or … Continue reading Double check if an SSH account is SFTP-only and chrooted
For platform hardware independence, a proposal to host a SFTP server within a containerized environment was being considered.
A container or pod would have the server running within it, with mounted host directories for file related operat… Continue reading Is it a good idea to host a SFTP server within a dockerized environment with mounted host directories?