Re: ssh with no encryption ?

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima@127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/23/03 

From: Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:51:31 +0000 (UTC)

those who know me have no need of my name sez:
> in comp.security.ssh i read:
...
>>We use CVS for web/ftp site mirroring and we use SSH to tunnel CVS
>>connections.
...
> i'm surprised by that, rsync should do as well as ftp.

FTP has no way of finding only files that changed since last
checkout. Rsync could do, with a bit of scripting, but the
updates are already in CVS; all I need to do is open remote CVS
access to selected users without using pserver and without their
usernames/passwords floating around in the clear.

... kerberos, srp or ssl enabled ftp server and client
> with data encryption disabled, or even a kerberos, srp or ssl enabled telnet
> server and client (again with encryption disabled) and an in-band transfer
> tool like kermit or zmodem.

... running on Mac emulated by Executor inside a Cygwin Linux running
on a Win'98 VM running in VMware on x86 Solaris. Sure.

Dima 

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