On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > sftp, on the other hand, is a bit better, but still not at the level of > something like ncftp, which I swear by. yeps. > So, I just use ncftp, because it works well, and I guess I takes my > chances on the security part. that's a bit sick imho ;) If you use ftp on one hand and refuse to use telnet and use ssh for ti on the other hand, you seem to have missed the point of using ssh at all. Sorry for being a bit blund on this topic > 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 > > > > > > > > -- slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) ----------- Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details ----------- Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen!