-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:16:09 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 15:27:15 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > I guess it depends on which packages you tell the installer to > > load. One of the options is "web server," but I haven't set up a > > desktop installation lately (all my Debian is server-side), so I'm > > not really sure if a web server is part of the standard desktop > > configuration, but it's certainly one of the options. > > It isn't part of the standard desktop configuration. > > > The original poster said the want to "send" a file to someone, as > > opposed to "make available for download." Now if I'm sending a > > file from one linux machine to another, scp is a pretty > > straightforward way to do it from the command line, and scp runs > > over ssh. > > I don't think the OP really knows what he needs to do to achieve his > ends. People are often lax in not distinguishing between making a file > available and sending it. > Yes, I'm sorry for not being clearer. The difference really *is* important in cases like this. Making a file available would be perfectly all right; this is probably what I *should* have meant by one person "--listening" and the other connecting to the listening machine, but have it be "--listening" as in waiting for a request for download. Miles suggested Woof in another area of this thread > > Not sure why you consider ssh to be "over the top" - anybody in > > their right mind turns off telnet and ftp as the first step in > > securing a new installation - in favor of ssh and sftp. > > Telnetd and ftpd are not installed on a new installation, so how do > you turn them off? telnet and ftp are installed but you do not have > to use them. ssh is overkill for the OP if he only wants to make files > available for download. If they contained state secrets I might go > along with you and advise the more complicated and time-consuming > procedure of setting up ssh on both machines is worth it. > Most of the time I just want the data moved (whoops, *copied*) from host to host, with little concern for encryption. If I did want encryption it would probably be with GPG on the file itself. :) - -- Aubrey "There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPyy5wAAoJEDqgFXa7UFQOmIkH/37iVW4/mou2MJsX7N3MF2s/ cy9djpL8r4sfauJONFBdeNXOkMfvlOCHtOTZ7XmVyMrRYRt/+g7HoLWg2mHGyFUE O6kRU66NXu/Cnh/4cheHNw+jQGlGcOY0T5Re2CdWsyjWiYfQWW9y2W15gAzGK8Uk KfQxNsSkXSTZ995ztHGN1fxobX72ELFxyvXDaG2NlG2HdHZtH+yH1iccRLIpYm4O RuHJe71F4Z6aMLTJrOl9NIXvenF2tDAPn7GaLyOUNM6+RQob3Zuyw7m3CNIBSpaT +kKglN2FZ3nG0h7jWZcGRyCzd3twVaGCfM97Wrlf+vIoGRrwdbwHBl69o2O9ggc= =PO/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
