I think you're right. Does this mean anyone could easily intercept my
login and password and log in as me?
The basic answer for this is yes. Definitely your password could be
intercepted and used by others.
But consider for a minute what is involved with that...
Someone floating out there
Passwords in ssh and sftp are sent encrypted, so the password cannot be
sniffed by moitoring your transmissions. You cannot say the same for
ftp, telnet or http.
As someone pointed out, you can often arrange that two given accounts
can use sftp without passwords; I do this quite a bit.
Another
I think you're right. Does this mean anyone could easily intercept my
login and password and log in as me?
The basic answer for this is yes. Definitely your password could be
intercepted and used by others.
But consider for a minute what is involved with that...
Someone floating
Passwords in ssh and sftp are sent encrypted, so the password cannot be
sniffed by moitoring your transmissions. You cannot say the same for
ftp, telnet or http.
As someone pointed out, you can often arrange that two given accounts
can use sftp without passwords; I do this quite a bit.
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Je Mardo Februaro 22 2005 14:10, Dave Nebinger skribis:
I think you're right. Does this mean anyone could easily intercept my
login and password and log in as me?
The basic answer for this is yes. Definitely your password could be
intercepted
I need to ftp different text files to different systems (google,
yahoo, etc.), and I'd like to be able to set up a cron job so it is
done automatically every day. I'm also concerned about sending my
password for these systems over the internet in clear text. A
previous thread tells me wput can
On 2005-02-18 11:00, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can sftp send files securely with a single command? I would just
emerge it and figure it out but it has a long list of dev-perl
dependencies for me. Does anyone use sftp like that?
If you have sftp, you have ssh. How about scp? It's part
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Grant wrote:
| I need to ftp different text files to different systems (google,
| yahoo, etc.), and I'd like to be able to set up a cron job so it is
| done automatically every day. I'm also concerned about sending my
| password for these systems over
I'm also concerned about sending my
password for these systems over the internet in clear text.
Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via
a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry
about the automated upload?
Based on the
I'm also concerned about sending my
password for these systems over the internet in clear text.
Ah, you're doing that whether you are doing it manually or automagically via
a cron task. So if you're not worried about the manual upload, why worry
about the automated upload?
I'm not any
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