Re: Not OFFLIST Re: TECH: info on ftp

Ssh is not cumbersome - there's an "sftp" that works like regular ftp
but uses ssh, so the interface looks the same. It is more flexible -
but that's a security tradeoff for the provider.  If you have ssh
access you can actually execute commands on the server, in addition to
reading and writing files, which is more dangerous for them.  But it
opens up opportunities to use things like rsync, which is a smart file
transfer system that only sends the parts of a file that have changed.




On 8/27/08, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> Den 27. aug. 2008 kl. 11.58 skreiv Mark J. Reed:
>
>> 1. That wasn't offlist. :)
>
> But it sure was of general interest.
>
>> This is why there's ssh and scp and https:// URL's - those extra S's
>> stand for "secure".  Which is perhaps an overstatement, but it's
>> definitely *more* secure. :)  The data "on the wire" in such cases is
>> encrypted, and someone in between the two computers, even with access
>> to the complete session, has no way of decrypting the data.
>
> Thanks for the info. Ok, I'd better look into this ssh and scp stuff.
> Hope they're not too cumbersome. Though I do use a special password
> for ftp.
>
> LEF
>
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