[oclug] Securing a sysem [was: knark attack]

[bartom]

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Forbes <tforbes at ottawa.com>
To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [oclug] Securing a sysem [was: knark attack]


> Is there a Windows ssh client for scp? I don't think Putty can copy files
and Maurice seems to need to provide a  file transfer utility for his
Windows users.
> Thus spake David F. Skoll (dfs at roaringpenguin.com):
>
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Lafleur Maurice wrote:
> >
> > > You mean I should not run wu-ftpd at all, even the newest release?
> >
> > Yes.  wu-ftpd is really bad.  Terrible software.  If you only need FTP
> > for students to copy files around, you can use scp (part of SSH).  If
you
> > think you need anonymous FTP, you probably don't. :-)  You can implement
> > read-only anonymous FTP using HTTP transfers instead, and you don't want
> > read/write anonymous FTP access.
> >
> > I'll be giving a talk on SSH on 1 February at OCLUG.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David.
> >
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> --
> tim
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Freeware SSH and SCP for Windows 9x, NT and DOS
 http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html

mentions

PuTTY, which now includes support for SSH 2, and has an authentication
agent.
You can download PuTTY here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Tera Term Pro ver. 2.3 for Windows 95/NT

TTSSH: An SSH Extension to Teraterm
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html

SSH1 and SCP1 for MS-Windows
http://metternich.vibe.at/tools/ssh-w32/ssh-lose.html