Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> What I meant is "secure" ftp.
> sort of like httpS as an alternative to http.
> 
> short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple)

It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem   sftp    /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server

Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not.

Thanks,
Donnie