Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread Marcus Williams
Hi - I need to provide a way for users to upload/download files from their shell accounts on a colo server I admin. The majority of the users wont want to use scp/sftp and are clueless as far as ssh tunneling goes. This pretty much leaves ftp as far as I can see (although I suppose webdav might be

Re: Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread Sels, Roger
Hello Marcus, I'd recommend sticking to scp, as you can give your users winscp. Its interface resembles major ftp clients out there and is very intuitive, so they should not have any issues using it. I can't comment on the WebDAV implementations for linux, as I've never used them, but I personall

Re: Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread Marcus Williams
On 08/10/2004, Roger Sels wrote: > I'd recommend sticking to scp, as you can give your users winscp. > Its interface resembles major ftp clients out there and is very > intuitive, so they should not have any issues using it. Yeah, the only problem with this is Frontpage doesnt support sftp and the

Re: Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread David Ramsden
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:54:39AM +0200, Sels, Roger wrote: > Hello Marcus, > > I'd recommend sticking to scp, as you can give your users winscp. > Its interface resembles major ftp clients out there and is very intuitive, > so they should not have any issues using it. > [snip] http://filezilla

Re: Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread David Stanaway
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:54 +0200, Sels, Roger wrote: > Hello Marcus, > > I'd recommend sticking to scp, as you can give your users winscp. > Its interface resembles major ftp clients out there and is very intuitive, > so they should not have any issues using it. On windows, there is a semi dece

Re: Providing secure file access on a colo-server

2004-10-08 Thread Federico Grau
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:44:13PM +0100, Marcus Williams wrote: > On 08/10/2004, Roger Sels wrote: > > I'd recommend sticking to scp, as you can give your users winscp. > > Its interface resembles major ftp clients out there and is very > > intuitive, so they should not have any issues using it. >

Re: [OT] Collective memory query

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:08:28PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 15.49, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:38:03PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von > Bidder wrote: > > > > for foo in `find . -name "something"` > >