On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:25:00PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-09-26-14:58:29 Sanjeev Jha:
> > What are those loss in running rsync-stunnel as compared to rsync-over-ssh
> > that you mentioned here ?? tell me more about "slung behind a stunnel"
>
> SSL add a lot of complexity, relative to ssh; and stunnel at least
> doesn't offer all the features that ssh has, that help in this
> task. Specifically, you can easily, with no programming necessary,
> configure ssh to allow only a specific key from a specific IP addr
> to perform only a specific rsync transfer.
Alternatively you could run it over an IPSEC tunnel, but that's *much*
more complex to install than ssh.
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