Re: Security Question

[Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 23:19 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:

> Hi Roger -
> 
> As others have responded ftp on a "secure" machine is a Bad Thing(TM). 
> However, trying to explain to a mere mortal how to use scp can be a pain. 
> So, I submit that you have your client use a graphical scp client - much 
> shorter learning curve.
> 
> Have a look at this list that Google came up with:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=graphical+scp&btnG=Google+Search
> 

There is also an "ftp-like" client called sftp. I'm not sure if one is
just a front-end for the other, but you can do things like get file
listings, etc. which you can't easily do with scp.

-- 
Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>