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RE: Anonymous FTP



Ok, maybe that was just personal preference overriding objectivity.  Good
catch.  ;)  I haven't used rsync a whole lot, so my opinions are more
slanted to use scp.  Having now actually read the man page for sync, that'll
work like a champ.  (assuming it's a *nix box he's connecting to)



-----Original Message-----
From: Brian May [mailto:bam@debian.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:36 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP

>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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