Vivek Kumar wrote:
Hi all, We are trying to give either vpn or ssh access to all the remote users.. I am more comfortable with ssh but others say VPN so one quick question which one is more secure or better - VPN or ssh ? Thanks in advance for your comments and help.
Hi, VPN and SSH are not really made for the same purpose. VPN is used to encrypt all traffic between a lan and pc or lan<->lan or pc<->pc. If you have a VPN you can check your mail on the company's mailserver using a plain-text protocol. All data will be encypted before it's leaving your computer and it's decrypted before it is passed onto the mail-daemon. Now it's impossible to sniff your the traffic you sended. SSH is way of getting a prompt on a remote machine. It's the same as telnet but encrypted. Although you can create encrypted tunnels between two hosts with ssh, it's easier to do it with VPN. Thomas