Now that you guys are talking about scp/sftp clients for windows: Please give filezilla a chance, it will blow your mind. http://filezilla.sf.net
<plug> oh, and if you want to get hotmail or yahoo! mail from your favorite pop client, try MrPostman. http://mrbook.org/mrpostman/ </plug> Cheers, Hector. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan G. Grennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [RLUG] ftp server > 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 > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
