Skip Morrow wrote: > I know that I should use ssh instead of telnet and scp instead of ftp. The > problem is, windows clients are kinda hard to come by for scp. Yeah, I know > of several, but at work, it takes an act of congress to install anything on > the computers. So, what about https? I want to be able to grab files off > of my home computer while at work. The easy answer is to run an ftp server. > But I won't, for obvious reasons. I can run sshd, and I do, but I have the > afore-mentioned problem. If I set up apache with SSL, can I set up a secure > web page that asks for a password that will allow me to browse my file > system? Then I could use any up-to-date web browser to grab my files. Good > idea? Bad idea? Bad, but not as bad as FTP? Good, but not as good as > SCP/SSH?
The idea is fine, but it would be much easier, IMO, to use sshd on your home computer and use puTTY / pscp on your Windows client. No installing of stuff necessary. Just grab the binaries [1] and you are ready to rock and roll. --Josh [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html -- Josh Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Systems Administrator INCOGEN, Inc.
