Re: NcFTPput
Yes ftp (or telnet) is not encrypted, so passwords would go through the internet as plain text.
If you have ssh access to the server, scp or sftp would be much more secure, because they would all be encrypted. With ssh compression enabled in your ~/.ssh/config, scp or sftp may even be faster than ftp, despite encryption. While sftp in a text terminal looks similar to regular text ftp, for a graphic interface you could use the file manager in Ubuntu. File > Connect to Server..., and if you select SSH it would securely view and copy files to or from the server just like copying files around your hard drive.
For scripting you could use scp, although, you may need to use keys without a password with only the public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server (make sure that any keys put into that file do NOT wordwrap). Note that ~/.ssh/ on any computer (client or server) should have 700 permission (drwx------) and any files in that dir should have 600 permission (-rw-------). This explains ssh keys https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
Last edited by efflandt; January 6th, 2014 at 05:35 PM.
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