On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:05, Mark C Ballew wrote: > My mission in life is to abolish FTP from the face of the Internet[0]. > > Don't use ftp. Let me underscore this: _Don't use FTP_ > > It is insecure. Passwords are sent in the clear. Data is sent in the > clear. FTP deamons have a history of security problems. > > Again. Don't use ftp. > > That said, let's find a solution for your problem. > > ssh comes with a package called sftp. It uses scp to tranfer files > between hosts, and sftp to do file listings, and it works quite well. > > The best part is there isn't much you need to do to set it up. Create > user accounts on the server you have your html posted on, and tell > them the user name and login. Redhat Linux 8 already comes with ssh/sftp > ready to go! > > There are two sftp clients out there (for windows) that work quite well: > WINscp and ssh.com's workstation client. I recommend the latter, as it > has a really nice drag and drop interface. > > As for Linux, I just use the command line, but I'm sure there are some > graphical Linux clients. Anyone care to share? >
I completely agree. I remember giving a similar rant at a lug meeting. Other clients are pscp and psftp from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html and SecureFX from http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/ On a side note there is one draw back to both scp and sftp, they lack resume support. The answer is to ssh tunnel rsync using rsync --progress --partial -e ssh I make it an alias to rsync, but you could do it to something else like srs. The --progress gives you a download bar/graph so you can tell how the download is going. --partial does the resume work, and -e ssh does the tunnel. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
