[luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?

[Brian Chee]

Yup....and I wrote a site license for the commercial ssh (www.ssh.com) and
it's all drag and drop....really easy....

/brian chee

University of Hawaii ICS Dept
Advanced Network Computing Lab
1680 East West Road, POST rm 311
Honolulu, HI  96822
808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Cross" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?


> Hmm...  I use the Appgate Mindterm SSH client
(http://www.sandust.org/ssh/)
> and it has a great SCP GUI that allows me to browse directories and select
> multiple files, etc.  I don't know exactly how they do it, but it is only
> using SSH and SCP.  It seems it would be easy to add functionality to keep
> track of the files that have been uploaded/downloaded for your check-
> in/check-out process.
>
> Aloha,
> Dusty
>
>
>
> > Yes I agree...but the point that you're missing is that with FTP,
> > DreamWeaver does a check-in/out facilty and auto synchronization....the
> > facility is spiffy enough that many users don't even want to do
> > something as simple as saving the entire structure to a local disk and
> > then using scp/sftp to upload it.
> >
> > This is very much the eighth layer of the ISO model (political layer)
> > in that many web designers are artsy types and push back very hard on
> > making uploading any more difficult.
> >
> > While I really don't see why this is so difficult, it is a big issue
> > and enough of an issue that I've been asked to expend effort on solving
> > this problem. So yeah, I see your point, but the perception of what
> > "should be" is an issue when you the person(s) that wants it control
> > the bucks. So....the good news is that there is a solution that is a
> > relatively good middle ground. So asking the users to start an ssh
> > session before doing the FTP upload so far doesn't seem to be too much
> > to ask of my DreamWeaver users.
> >
> > /brian chee
> >
> > University of Hawaii ICS Dept
> > Advanced Network Computing Lab
> > 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311
> > Honolulu, HI  96822
> > 808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dustin Cross" <dusty at sandust.com>
> > To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: [luau] Secure FTP to RedHat 7.3 box?
> >
> >
> >> Aloha,
> >>
> >> Why not use SCP, that is the built in file transfer utility of SSH.
> >> It seems that if dreamweaver is using SSH to transfer files they
> >> should have an interface for SCP like most GUI SSH tools.
> >>
> >> FTP is bad!!!!!!!!
> >>
> >> Dusty
> >>
> >>
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