[UFO Chicago] Re: your mail

[Nate Riffe]

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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Mike McCune wrote:

> Is it part of ssh? I can install ssh on my Linux machine (I am not a maid. I
> don't do Windows).

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Me neither

>
> On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:55, Nate Riffe wrote:
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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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