Thanks all for the input.  

John Miller
Software Developer
Phone: 612-547-7573
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens at sistina.com]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:40 PM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] FTP and logging in


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:13:53PM -0500, Miller, John wrote:
>When a user logs on to an FTP server.  Are their user id and password
transmitted in 
>plain text or does the FTP client try to hide it and if so how.
>

plain text. fire up your favorite sniffer. Look into SSL wrapping your
ftpd. Some support this right out of the box (proftpd) and still others
will work if you use stunnel or sslwrap. Anything plain-text is bad bad
bad. 

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