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jlewin
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Centos5 FTP

Post by jlewin » 2021/03/18 14:06:37

Hi there, I'm a bit of a centos novice trying to help a friend! I'm attempting to enable FTP to download a website from a server hosted by heart internet. I know its EOL but I need the data. Can anyone advise the best way of being able to download this. Can't connect to the server using filezilla!
Many thanks

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TrevorH
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Re: Centos5 FTP

Post by TrevorH » 2021/03/18 17:59:16

You'd be better off finding a better way to do this. Personally, I would ssh to the machine, tar up all the data you want (or zip, whatever your preferred archiver is) then use the scp or sftp command to either push it from there to somewhere else or pull it remotely using scp/sftp to your server. Once you have the archive on your own machine you can untar/unzip/unwhatever it.

CentOS 5 has been dead for over 4 years and has numerous high severity security bugs so opening one of the least secure services there is (ftp) is probably not the best move. Using scp/sftp will run over ssh and should be considerably more secure.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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tunk
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Re: Centos5 FTP

Post by tunk » 2021/03/19 13:14:15

Doesn't filezilla work with the SSH/SFTP protocol (i.e. port 22) instead of FTP (port 21)?

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