RE: [cobalt-security] SSL FTP or SCP?

["Shaun Johnston" <shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> chmod everything outside of /home/sites (eg. /etc, /lib,
>> /usr etc etc) to 750 instead of 755, and also the /home/sites directory
>> itself (non-recursive) to 750 without it affecting the way the system
>> operates?
>>
>If you do that your raq will crash and burn. (Well maybe not burn, but I
>doubt it will work for much longer)
>Applications/services/etc that open files will no longer be able to do so,
>as they wont have permissions.

Lucky I asked then ;-)  Thanks for the info - I just assumed any application
needing access to a particular directory would be doing it as a user in a
group that had read access to it.

I did a bit more research, and installed SafeTP - looks like a pretty good
all-round solution.  I'm still interested in SSL FTP solutions though.

Shaun Johnston