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  • June 29, 2003 at 9:02 am #356000
    bryan taylor
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    Perhaps this is OT, but I need to advise a company building a web server about security, I’ve found out that afp uses only port 548 ( http://support.stat.ucla.edu/view.php?supportid=39), but since afp submits login & password in cleartext, then I wonder whether having afp through a firewall to a web server that will have a drop box is a good thing.. perhaps an ssh/scp connection is preferable although non-intuitive for the mac users.

    Your thoughts?

    June 30, 2003 at 9:51 am #356003
    bryan taylor
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    Joel,

    thank you, serves me right for not reading past the first paragraph on the developer connection. Of course it provides various secure modes. Dumb, dumb… read the fine manual strikes again 😉

    cheers
    bryan

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