On Monday 04 Feb 2008 10:11:02 pm Chas. Owens wrote: > Or better yet, use sftp or scp. Your olpc user gets his/her own keys > generated when you first start up. sftp and scp both require receiver to share login password with sender. nc doesn't. It just reads/writes bytestreams from/to network sockets. E.g. You can transfer sub-directories across machines with : [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nc -lp 9999 | tar xzvf - ./src
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ tar czvf - ./src | nc -q 10 192.168.1.2 9999 without exchanging passwords. Very handy for machines in a mesh. sftp/scp would be an overkill for such purposes. The 20KB nc is one of those utilities that makes you wonder how you ever managed without it :-). Subbu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
