Re: [Micronet] Re: [MAGNet] secure ftp for Macs

From: Michael Sinatra (michael@rancid.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 16:09:44 PDT

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    On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Tom Holub wrote:

    > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:52:09PM -0700, Gordon Adams wrote:
    > > Showing my PC orientation here, could someone please recommend a secure
    > > file transfer program. The data fellows (SSH) web site says that the Mac
    > > client will have sftp "soon". We need one now. What are all of you using
    > > for your Mac web people who have to upload all the time?
    >
    > netatalk (or a commercial AppleShare server) is the easiest way (for the
    > user); they can just mount a filesystem on their desktop. netatalk has
    > the ability to do encrypted password transactions, using a separate
    > password database on the server.

    What would be really cool is if netatalk could interface with Kerberos5 or
    the GSSAPI--then it would be easier for admins to maintain. Do you know
    if it has that capability?

    > NiftyTelnet SSH has a decent SCP interface, but it's probably beyond
    > most Mac users.
    >
    > You can set up FTP tunnelling with the 1.0 version of the F/Secure SSH
    > client, which is annoying but functional.

    MacSSH is a project that has added SSH functionality to BetterTelnet (the
    BetterTelnet author is also doing this). Dunno about its file-transfer
    capabilities, but it may be worth checking out.

    michael

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