Re: Secure FTP Using SSH

["Shalom Carmel" <shalom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Details about SSH instalation and setup on iSeries can be found here.
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/tools/openssh.html


SSH can increase your iSeries security, but unfortunately it can also 
significantly decrease it - depending on the implementation.
An SSH client is harmless, but an SSH server with a default configuration is 
faulty. Read my recent posting in the security400 list.

http://archive.midrange.com/security400/200609/msg00048.html

Shalom Carmel
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www.hackingiseries.com


> SFTP (The FTP-like interface to SSH) is also available on i5/OS, but it's
> a separate licpgm you have to order from IBM.  It runs under PASE, not as
> a native CL command.  That can make it a little more confusing for someone
> with a System i background because they're not used to working with Unix
> commands. SFTP (and SSH in general) is extremely popular on Unix systems.
>
> Security-wise, they're both very well done.  I don't think one is
> signifncantly more secure than the other.