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Re: Anonymous FTP



>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Mogavero <jmogavero@inflow.com> writes:

    Jason> Someone else mentioned using rsync tunneled through ssh,
    Jason> which isn't a bad idea either, but I think scp is more
    Jason> suited to scripting as long as the host files are set up
    Jason> correctly.

Why?

Personally, I see rsync as having one major benefit. It works over a
rsh link too. scp only supports an ssh link (AFAIK).

rsh could be a encrypted link with Kerberos authentication, for
instance. I use this kind of setup regularly.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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