With scp I believe you can also transfer a file between two different
hosts and it will compress the transfer as does ssh. The whole thing is
encrypted as well.
Bret
Piet Barber wrote:
>
> > However, it does have scp which will allow you to copy files, but I don't know how
> > handy this is compared to an ftp type interface since I've never tried it.
>
> For similar systems, (like boxen in an office environment) It's always been my
> preference to use scp over ftp.
>
> Compare: Pretend you're getting the file filename.gz from the machine slacker, which
> has your username and a home directory.
>
> ftp slacker
> (username)
> (password)
> bin
> get filename.gz
> bye
>
> with:
> scp slacker:filename.gz .
> (password)
>
> Hmmm. I think I'll take the scp over the ftp.
>
> AND I don't have to worry about somebody sniffing my password.
> AND I don't have to worry about the man-in-the-middle attack.
> AND I don't have to worry about maybe mistakenly typing the wrong hostname, and
>putting
> my password on the wrong machine.
>
> (I'm really paranoid like that)
>
> And I think ssh 2.x is mostly fluff. Expensive fluff.
> I'm waiting anxiously for openssh to become stable.
>
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