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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