On 19 Sep 2002, Tom wrote: > Question One: Do people agree with this? If tomorrow all > instances of 'ftpd' were magically changed to 'sshd', would we > have all the functionality we wanted, but with improved security?
Not really. What about those anonymous sites, where you'd now have to hand out an SSH password. I think the answer is ssh for your personal data (where you have a username and password), and rsync for everything else. Perhaps even rsync over ssh for your personal data. Yay rsync. > If so, the obvious and unavoidable obstacle to conversion is > the gargantuan inertia from having *so* *many* ftp sites > currently running. Lots of the mirror sites already run rsync, because it reduces the load on their network pipes. > Question Two: Am I just catching up with last Thursday? Are there > already ideas/actions/discussions/efforts/people/projects working to > assist this transition? I wouldn't know. What was special about last Thursday? Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UTC +10 hours -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
