Re: Matt's Scripts

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:08:03PM +0000, Struan Donald wrote:
> and people are worrying about plain scp confusing people? ssh
> tunneling is one of those things that appears close enough to magic
> that people assume it is. damn useful magic though.
> 
> plus it always seems such a pain on windows

It is.  And a word of warning in case anybody tries it:  Don't tunnel
ftp over ssh.  It doesn't work properly.  Only 1 tunnel goes over the
secure connection.  Admittedly, it keeps the password out of the way,
but it also leads to a false sense of security about your data being
encrypted.

-Dom (had to whinge to a Linux Journal author about this one)