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I hope these are not dumb questions. Would sftp (secure ftp) be a better alternative than ftp? What was the logic to remove that option on the network install versus http? is there even a benefit for the mirrors to be on https (secure http) vs http and would that allow for a verified download

Re: Welcome-Mail

Em 16-11-2015 13:59, Danny Nguyen escreveu: > I hope these are not dumb questions. > > Would sftp (secure ftp) be a better alternative than ftp? Which "secure ftp" you're referring here? SSH's sftp or ftps? Because if it's the latter, then I'd say it wouldn't be a better alternative. ftp is ftp.

Re: Welcome-Mail

Yea, but ftp is a shitty protocol that should have died a merciful death a long time ago so On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, at 06:07 AM, Marc Peters wrote: > Am 11/16/15 um 12:00 schrieb Stefan Wollny: > > Hi there, > > > > I may be wrong but I thought usage of ftp to get information and to > >

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All protocols are, to some degree or another. Especially when you look at all the irrelevant complexity of a full implementation. Sometimes there's no good answers. -- Raul On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Eric Furman wrote: > Yea, but ftp is a shitty protocol that

Re: Welcome-Mail

On 2015-11-16, Marc Peters wrote: > Am 11/16/15 um 12:00 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> Hi there, >> >> I may be wrong but I thought usage of ftp to get information and to >> download packages is discouraged. I just noticed (after having done a >> fresh install of amd64-current)

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Am 11/16/15 um 12:00 schrieb Stefan Wollny: > Hi there, > > I may be wrong but I thought usage of ftp to get information and to > download packages is discouraged. I just noticed (after having done a > fresh install of amd64-current) reading the welcome mail "Welcome to > OpenBSD 5.8!" that the