Running a public FTP site securely can be difficult. Taking full advantage of the security features supported by your FTP server application of choice can be a chore, and even then there's a good ...

Can you believe that in nearly four years of Paranoid Penguin columns, I've never talked about how to configure FTP services? This month I fix that, using my new favorite FTP server, Chris Evans' ...

You may already know that, when FTP commands cross the wire, they use TCP port 21 by default. You may also know that port 20 is assigned to the FTP data channel by default. For further reference, see ...

The .netrc file contains data for logging in to a remote host over the network for file transfers by ftp (1). This file resides in the user's home directory on the machine initiating the file transfer ...

What is FTP Protocol? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol for transferring files. The implementation of FTP dates from 1971, when a file transfer system (described in ...