[UFO Chicago] Re: your mail

[Mike McCune]

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

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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