Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:11:53 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015585913.e914ba@mired.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Olaf=20Hoyer?= <ohoyer@yahoo.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sftp scp musings Message-ID: <15490.1273.330630.669911@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <132086486@toto.iv>
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Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@yahoo.de> types: > Problem: My users in my department are mosty working > under Windoze, repectively do not know how to operate > a commandline, they only acept things that have a > point-and-click-interface ;-(( > > (Yeah, stupid ones... But moving them to a webserver > with some tradeoffs is better wo work under winblows > with about 5 Gig of historically grown data (before I > was employed) and being 3 Gig of them macrohorrified > Excel/Word crap... > > So, anyway, for windows a nice GUI client (WinSCP) is > available, which does nicely under FreeBSD (tested > with 4.3 and 4.4), running smooth with a tcsh and > bash. > (WinSCP manual states that bash is required) Under > RedHat 7.2, only bash will work, tcsh gives bad > hickup... It works fine on 4-STABLE with /bin/sh as the shell. At least, it does for my short tests. I was using WinSCP2, though. > Does anyone knows of a GUI sftp-capable client, or > another win32-gui method of encrypted file transfer? Try WinSCP2, probably available wherever you got WinSCP. If not, try <URL: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ >. While you're there, have them get PuttyGEN as well, and generate a key pair. Save the private key where WinSCP2 can get it, and you get the public key, and put in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys a line like: no-pty,no-port-forwarding <key data> And in vipw make their password "*". That way, they can click on WinSCP2 and get a file<->file interface, or configure it to get an "explorer" interface, but nobody can log into the account via a shell. That should make both them and you happy. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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