[mdlug] sshfs mount

Paul set.mailinglist at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 16:42:32 EST 2011


Mark Thuemmel <ldaphelp at thuemmel.com>, on Sat  2011.12.31 said:
> 
> Wouldn't scp unencrypted be pretty much rcp?
> 

	Hi;

	Well, you would still have the authentication and
security infrastructure of the ssh/sshd setup in place. The
encryption refered to here is for the data moving across
the wire-- do you care if anyone can snoop that?
	(Actually, modern rcp can do some sort of encryption of
data during the transfer as well, and use Kerberos for
authentication.  And according to a man page I just glanced at,
it can handle 3rd party copies, where neither the source or
destination are on the instigating machine...with the caveat:

"Kerberos is only used for the first connection of a third-party
copy; the second connection uses the standard Berkeley rcp
protocol." )

Paul




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