Does ProFTPD support SFTP?

ProFTPd is a popular FTP server that can be configured to use the SFTP protocol, a secure FTP alternative, instead of FTP.

Is ProFTPD secure?

Unlike other FTP servers, ProFTPD is designed to be lightweight, secure, and configurable. (If you’re familiar with Apache, you should have no trouble adapting because the configuration for ProFTPD is based on a similar syntax.)

What is ProFTPD basic?

Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon – binaries ProFTPD is a powerful modular FTP/SFTP/FTPS server. This File Transfer Protocol daemon supports also hidden directories, virtual hosts, and per-directory “. ftpaccess” files. It uses a single main configuration file, with a syntax similar to Apache.

What is Mod_sftp?

The mod_sftp module implements the SSH2 protocol and its SFTP subsystem, for secure file transfer over an SSH2 connection. The mod_sftp module supports: Public key authentication.

Where are ProFTPD logs?

By default, proftpd will log via syslog(3) , using the daemon facility ( auth for some logging), at various levels: err , notice , warn , info , and debug (debugging is done at this syslog level). The location of the server’s log files in this case is determined by your /etc/syslog. conf configuration.

Is SFTP more secure than FTPS?

Which is More Secure: SFTP or FTPS? In summary, SFTP and FTPS are both secure FTP protocols with strong authentication options. Since SFTP is much easier to port through firewalls, however, we believe SFTP is the clear winner between the two.

Which is faster SFTP or FTPS?

SFTP will almost always be significantly slower than FTP or FTPS (usually by several orders of magnitude). The reason for the difference is that there is a lot of additional packet, encryption and handshaking overhead inherent in the SSH2 protocol that FTP doesn’t have to worry about.

Where are Proftpd logs?