Hello Trevor
IMHO its best to use as many methods as possible to properly secure your data, as you know and pointed out tcp and rsh are far from secure methods of moving data around your network. By using SSH it would help this situation, I still think that moving to a switched network will be over all better for your network and secure for more transactions beyond that of your scripts. In short, do all you can do, even if its more work in the begining, because in the long run you could be looking at more work tring to figure out where all that data just went to? Ray Slakinski > 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 >
