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

[Matt Rose]

Actually, I think it does.  I've never tried it, but he mentions putty-scp
several times on his site.

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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Forbes wrote:

> 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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