[UFO Chicago] Re: your mail

[Nate Riffe]

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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:

> Mike, I'm cc:ing this to ufo, so that everyone hears about scp's
> frosty goodness.
>
> Quoting Mike McCune:
> > Yeah, FTP is about as secure as a Microsoft product ;-) What is scp? Is it
> > similar to ssh?
>
> scp is Secure Copy.

See also: sftp

> It uses ssh to transfer files from one location to
> another. If you have ssh on a box, try this:
>
> scp foo.txt username@machinename:~/
>
> You'll copy foo.txt to your homedir on 'machinename'.
>
> You can also do cool things like:
>
> scp -r aug30/ pictures@two-bit:~/public_html/ or if you are logged in
> as 'pictures' on your home machine, omit the username:
>
> scp -r aug30/ two-bit:~/public_html/
>
> Which will of course recursively copy the directory aug30 into the
> public_html directory in the user picture's homedir.
>
> What's even cooler, is that Simon Tatham, of PuTTY fame, has written
> an scp client for win32* -- so you now have a secure** way of transferring
> files from Windows to Linux (and/or back) without plain-text auth,
> samba-over-internet, ftp, etc. It's the only way to fly.
>
> You can get PuTTY and pscp at:
> http://two-bit.ufo.chicago.il.us/pub/ssh/windows/
>
> There's also a link to the PuTTY homepage there.
>
> Yours,
>
> Peter
>
> * The win32 client requires the username at all times, since windows
> username auth isn't exactly the most authoritative.
>
> ** for large values of secure
>
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