On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:47:57PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > read the rest of my message! yes i am familier with it, its fine for > > *nix users and for the paranoid on lessor OSes, but when it comes to > > telling *users* of say MacOS to give up thier pretty GUI drag and > > drop, point and drool ftp clients for scp (which works completly > > different, and to them is very clumsy (which it is on a GUI)) your not > > going to get a very desireable response. > > I don't use mac, but I saw a nice interface to ssh and scp too, in mac > style. Its name is Nifty telnet, if I remember correctly. i am aware of it, however it is not considered good enough to replace anarchie (ftp) by mac users. (they are most stubborn) > > only the most powerful and invulnerable BOFH could pull off a forced > > migration from ftp -> scp ;-) > > I don't think so. I saw a departmentet leaving telnet/ftp for ssh/scp. Ftp > must be only anonymous. If you give instruments for transition, is is > really possible. :-) for some, it depend son how stubborn the users are and how powerful root is :-) is it possible to create the equivilent to chrooted ftp with scp? like an anonymous ftp but for non-anonymous users. > bye > Christian > > -- > | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi | www. | > | csurchi@mclink.it | christian@firenze.linux.it | gnu. | > | FLUG: www.firenze.linux.it | Debian GNU/Linux: www.debian.org | org | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking > about. > -- John von Neumann > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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