Bernard
Mon Aug 28 22:38:24 CDT 2006
FTPS and SFTP are two different beast all together...
FTPS works via SSL, while SFTP relies on secure shell technology.
IIS FTP in v7 will offers FTPS.
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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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"Peter Schmidt" <peter[AT]iis-digest[DOT]com> wrote in message
news:e2Mnr9syGHA.3464@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Pierre
>
> I believe what you are asked is, if FTP authentication between client and
> server, can use a more secure way of authentication like in Kerberous,
> maybe even using Kerberous Auth.
> No, that's not possible, the FTP protocol is unsecure and communicate
> username/password in plain text between the server and the client.
>
> You can solve this by installing a Secure FTP (SFTP) server, but the FTP
> server in IIS is not able to run SFTP. If you want to go for SFTP, you
> have several options:
> 1. wait for Longhorn Server, where IIS will have the SFTP functionality.
> 2. find a 3rd party product for your FTP server, which is able to run
> SFTP.
>
> I hope this answered your question.
>
> Regards
> Peter Schmidt
> www.iis-digest.com
>
>
> "Pierre Bru" <Pierre.Bru@spotimage.fr> wrote in message
> news:udtpNqryGHA.4392@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> hi,
>>
>> my boss ask me if it is possible to authenticate on an IIS server using
>> Kerberos(?) instead of the usual username/password
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what he means... :/
>> could s/o help me ?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Pierre.
>
>