Enabling Secure Sockets Layer on the File Transfer Protocol server

Enabling Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) on the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server provides more security features for your FTP server. Perform the following steps to enable SSL on the FTP server:

In iSeries™ Navigator, expand your system > Network > Servers > TCP/IP.
Right-click FTP.
Select Properties.
Select the General tab.
Choose one of these options for SSL support:
- Secure only
  Select this to allow only SSL sessions with the FTP server. Connections can be made to the non-secure FTP port, but the FTP client must negotiate an SSL session before the user is allowed to log in.
- Non-secure only
  Select this to prohibit secure sessions with the FTP server. Attempts to connect to an SSL port will not connect.
- Both secure and non-secure
  Allows both secure and non-secure sessions with the FTP server.

You do not need to restart the FTP server. It will dynamically detect that a certificate has been assigned to it. If it does not dynamically detect this change, verify that you have the latest PTFs applied to your system.

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Using Secure Sockets Layer to secure the File Transfer Protocol server

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