Secure ProFTPD Connections Using TLS/SSL Protocol on RHEL/CentOS 7 | Linux Today

Secure ProFTPD Connections Using TLS/SSL Protocol on RHEL/CentOS 7

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Ravi Saive
Sep 15, 2014

By its nature FTP protocol was designed as an insecure protocol and all data and passwords are transferred in plain text, making the job of a third party very easy to intercept all FTP client-server transactions, especially usernames and passwords used in authentication process.

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Ravi Saive

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