Hello all,

Quick opinion based question.  I have an switched internal network that
currently uses a lot of rcp with rsh authentication to moves files
about.  Platforms are unix and nt (ftp on the nt side)

More secure is ssh and scp for all platforms, but I have several scripts
that would all have to be re-written and a fair bit of setting up for
all the clients and servers involved throughout the organisation.

The questions is this;

On an internal network that is switched (making sniffing harder) is it
worth going to SSH and SCP??????

I am aware how to set it all up but the thing is, is it worth it.  Bare
in mind also that few people have passwords to the boxes and the only
real threat is sniffing the traffic.

All opinions welcome,
thanks

Trevor Cushen
Sysnet Ltd

www.sysnet.ie
Tel: +353 1 2983000
Fax: +353 1 2960499

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