Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:20:24 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Olaf=20Hoyer?= <ohoyer@yahoo.de> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1015585913.e914ba@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sftp scp musings Message-ID: <20020303182024.78253.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <15490.1273.330630.669911@guru.mired.org>
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--- Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1015585913.e914ba@mired.org> schrieb: > Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@yahoo.de> types: > > So, anyway, for windows a nice GUI client (WinSCP) > is > > available, which does nicely under FreeBSD (tested > > with 4.3 and 4.4), running smooth with a tcsh and > > bash. > > (WinSCP manual states that bash is required) Under > > RedHat 7.2, only bash will work, tcsh gives bad > > hickup... > > It works fine on 4-STABLE with /bin/sh as the shell. > At least, it does > for my short tests. I was using WinSCP2, though. Hi! Hmm, well, I am using WInSCP2 also, and it works quite stable, I had it once transfer about 10 Gig data over 2Mbit line from an NT box to my FreeBSD 4.4 workstation on another location... ;-) > > > Does anyone knows of a GUI sftp-capable client, or > > another win32-gui method of encrypted file > transfer? > > Try WinSCP2, probably available wherever you got > WinSCP. If not, try > <URL: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ >. While you're > there, have them get > PuttyGEN as well, and generate a key pair. Save the > private key where > WinSCP2 can get it, and you get the public key, and > put in > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys a line like: > > no-pty,no-port-forwarding <key data> > > And in vipw make their password "*". That way, they > can click on > WinSCP2 and get a file<->file interface, or > configure it to get an > "explorer" interface, but nobody can log into the > account via a > shell. That should make both them and you happy. Hmm, yes, that will be some thought, that no-one may locally login, but I can also use different users, also for b"virtual" web-hosting in our department without using WU-FTPD or similar... Thanks! Olaf Hoyer ===== -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@yahoo.de Liebe und Haß sind nicht blind, aber geblendet von dem Feuer, daß sie in sich tragen. (Nietzsche) __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Ihre E-Mail noch individueller? - http://domains.yahoo.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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