John: scp is great only if you know a filemask for the files you want. It's not so hot if you need to specify a lot of files. sftp, on the other hand, is a bit better, but still not at the level of something like ncftp, which I swear by. So, I just use ncftp, because it works well, and I guess I takes my chances on the security part. Of course, if I know the file I want (which happens often, very often), I do use scp. PS: Take a look at the man page for ssh-agent. I just discovered this little gem yesterday. Very helpful. On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > Thanks to all the people the other day who told me how to get ssh working. > That's fine now. The next thing is to do secure ftp. I looked at scp, but > it doesn't seem very interactive, or there are so many options that I > can't see how it is normally used. This is a common failing of man and > even info pages. > Thanks. > John > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org