Secure FTP

[Gatsu]

Right now with V2 it seems that FTP connections are sent just as plain FTP. There is no encryption in communications for any ftp transmissions. A simple solution to this would be adding another option for FTPS

 

It would be a very simple matter to enable FTPS in the FTP backup option and any FTP transmissions. This would vastly improve the security of those with less noble intentions form trying to get in. Right now I am sure quite a few of us are using the task scheduler for database backups and if you send a backup to a remote location then having a secured method of transmission is paramount and would only take 15 min. We will first explain the FTP usages for normal users.

 

Implementation of this type of feature would build upon the already implemented FTP structure and should only take a few hours of work. For Certificate usage the FTP servers could simply have their own self signed certificate (possible in mono and windows).

 

For outgoing FTPS transmissions, implementation would really just take 15min. In the FTP backup task you could have the system auto accept self signed certs by adding a tag to the command line. and changing the syntax of the command that tcadmin sends. At that point all you would need to do is added another <option> tag in the form for the task scheduler web page and it could use the new syntax.

 

Poof! 15min of work gets secured backups, and a few hours of work secures users and (we are assuming) server to server file transfers.

 

Does anyone else see the merit in this suggestion? We would welcome feedback.

[dobledosis]

Yes, i like this!

[dr_who]

Yes plz