Re: [ProgSoc] Removal of FTP

[Matt <matt@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:31:07PM +1000, jedd wrote:
>  Howdi,

>  Further to the topic of getting rid of FTP :

>  1/ There's a rinky GUI utility for Windoze that I've been playing
>  with at work, called iXplorer.  It gives you something that looks a
>  lot like cuteftp (tm), but using PSCP.EXE as a transport.  It seems
>  pretty robust, and it's certainly attractive to keyboard- phobic
>  users.  (Such as the com-sci graduate currently working for us -
>  who's never heard of ssh, and who thinks the world programs in
>  Eiffel and Pascal. {sigh}) Download at : i-tree.org PSCP.EXE and
>  PUTTY.EXE are available by doing an 'i feel lucky' search on google
>  for 'putty'

>  2/ I currently use 'weex' (a rather natty utility that synchronizes
>  my local copy of my web page, with the version on ftoomsh).  This
>  uses ftp as a backend.  Alternatives?

>  (weex does 'changed-only' updates, lets you exclude local dir's &
>  files in your tree that you don't want sync'd, etc.  Recursive scp
>  won't allow that flexibility.  Are there any
>  web-page-updating/syncing utils that anyone knows of that uses scp
>  as a transport?  Would having a local loopback of ftpd on ftoomsh,
>  to an ssh encrypted port up higher, be sufficient to remove the
>  security concern?  Would it even work?)

rsync is your friend. getting a windows copy might be fun however. im
sure it exists tho. and it works over rsh or ssh (as well as
supporting its own protocol).

	matt

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