Security Question

Listman fedora at linsolutions.com
Mon Aug 23 13:03:49 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:50, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 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 at tarnation.dyndns.org>

sftp is like an ssh version of ftp, very secure and highly recommended.

Ted






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