From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 3:12:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA3AC37B402 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 03:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13059 invoked by uid 100); 3 Mar 2002 11:11:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15490.1273.330630.669911@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:11:53 -0600 To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Olaf=20Hoyer?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sftp scp musings In-Reply-To: <132086486@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Olaf Hoyer types: > Problem: My users in my department are mosty working > under Windoze, repectively do not know how to operate > a commandline, they only acept things that have a > point-and-click-interface ;-(( > > (Yeah, stupid ones... But moving them to a webserver > with some tradeoffs is better wo work under winblows > with about 5 Gig of historically grown data (before I > was employed) and being 3 Gig of them macrohorrified > Excel/Word crap... > > 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. > 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 . 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 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message