> 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?
Could windows users participate? Unix-to-unix would be fine. I know there is putty for ssh on windows but the associated tools for scp and sftp are much harder to use. If we had a good gui for all platforms, then it would possibly spread. Perhaps there is a good cross platform gui language that could be used for such? ;-) In principal I completely agree and use scp over ftp, I have clients however that cannot make the leap due to large numbers of _their clients only just grasping ftp in a gui.. JMHO Stu > Question Two: Am I just catching up with last Thursday? Are there > already ideas/actions/discussions/efforts/people/projects working to > assist this transition? No that I know of. Stu On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:34, Tom wrote: > > Hi All, > > The recent 'ftp' related threads keep making me think > of a (I believe) Doc Searls statement from Linux Journal, > to the effect "It is immoral to teach new Linux users how > to set up an ftp daemon/site." (Sorry, I'm too lazy to dig > through back issues for the exact quote.) The idea, as I > interpret it, is that everyone should use 'ssh' instead > of ftp. (I claim that this is a common Mick Bauer theme in LJ > too.) > > > 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? > > > If so, the obvious and unavoidable obstacle to conversion is > the gargantuan inertia from having *so* *many* ftp sites > currently running. If so, I'm interested in this > (bizarrely enough) because IMHO it would be a huge societal > productivity gain to have *everyone* use 'ssh' and have 'ftp' > go extinct. (We would place ftp on a pedestal of honor in the > history books, of course.) > > Toward that end, in my head I've been playing with (hopefully) > quick, easy, simple, low tech ideas/solutions, intended to reduce > the time it takes for a general, societal, worldwide ftp-to-ssh > conversion. > > > Question Two: Am I just catching up with last Thursday? Are there > already ideas/actions/discussions/efforts/people/projects working to > assist this transition? > > > (As mentioned above, the ideas are simple. However, explaining > *why* I think these simple steps would help would make this > post longer than I wish, so for now I omit the ideas.) > > > Thanks, > Tom > > > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
