Edward Kerr wrote:
Thanks to you both for that info
Am trying to move to a civilized system, will get there one day!
Ed
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Edward Kerr
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ekerr/
Tony Cowderoy wrote:
Edward Kerr wrote:
Am I right in saying that you recommend PuTTY as a SSH / telnet client?
Do I get it from here: http://www.putty.nl/
and are the mentioned problems with some installations of WinXP much
of a problem in your experience?
I've used PuTTY for years and have been using on it XP without any
trouble for about a year.
The site at http://www.putty.nl/ appears to be a mirror. The "Visit
Website" button on my copy of PuTTY takes you to
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ , which is the
authors own site.
HTH
Tony Cowderoy
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Ed
I assume you intend to access your "civilized" from the "uncivilized"
one. Its something I do alot to access files on my home server from my
work boxes which are all XP (it even works on my XP64 box with no problems).
Although SSH is very secure, there are a couple of security tips that
you should attend to on the server side.
One is to disallow root logins, the second is to make sure you are only
allowing connections from ssh2 instead of the default ssh1 and ssh2. I
have found "webmin" the easiest way to make these changes although you
can probably do it by editing the conf files. Someone else might be able
to help out with that.
Once you have your ssh server running, remember to use strong passwords.
If you take a look at "/var/log/messages" after a week or so you will
probably see lots of failed access attempts via ssh. These are nothing
to worry about per se, but you do need to keep an eye on the logs, and
change passwords regularly to keep your system safe.
If you want to connect Linux to Linux there are lots of programs that
will allow to use ssh as a secure route. I use GFTP which gives you the
nice tree view of an FTP gui with the security of ssh. I believe a
number of other similar FTP programs do the same.
If you are using KDE, you can utilise the "knetattach" app to set up a
permanent link from Linux to Linux boxes, which then prompts you for a
password each time you want connect. Moving files is then as easy as
drag and drop. Gnome has a similar "Connect to Server" feature which
works in a similar way. You can pin the access down to specific folders
with either utility.
What I would really like to find is an "uncivilized" version of an FTP
program that can use ssh, that would save me a lot of messing about with
commandline "secure copy protocol" entries. Does anyone know of such a
thing?
Stu
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