I use PuTTY as well Good secure client I would have to agree with using PuTTY Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Stephen March wrote: > Personally, I agree with Aly. If you check out putty, > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html > > There are free ssh / scp / sftp clients (Windows based). I've been using > putty > for about a year now, and it has some pretty (easy to use) tunnelling > features > as well. > > I tunnel absolutely everything over SSH. Plaintext in general - is > obsolete :) > > Food for thought. > ~Steve > > > Quoting Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > FTP is in the same class as TELNET... obsolete, redundant, less secure, > > > etc... :) > > > > I think that with ftp+ssl it would be slightly more secure that it > used > > to be, aka plain text. I would think that any security site conscious > > site would want to use ssh based stuff, but for a plain transfer of > > files such as iso's or putting stuff up on a site ftp+ssl combo would do > > the trick. > > > > There are many ftp clients out there, many free, but very few > scp/sftp > > clients. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Aly. > > > > -- > > Aly Dharshi > > aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx > > > > > > "A good speech is like a good dress > > that's short enough to be interesting > > and long enough to cover the subject" > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
