RE: SSH Question

It is, actually.  In the telco industry we may have some machines in another
company's lab or a co-lo thing, and we may want to move metrics back and
forth, on their LAN, that houses other vendors equipment, that we don't want
them to sniff.   SCP would work too - I'm just trying to get away from
plaintext passwords for one. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kris Deugau [mailto:kdeugau@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: SSH Question
> 
> 
> Les Bell wrote:
> > Actually, you can tunnel all kinds of things through SSH as 
> well, with its
> > port forwarding capabilities. However, FTP is a special 
> case - the control
> > connection (to port 21) uses one connection, but the data 
> connection -
> > opened in the reverse direction unless in passive mode - 
> originates from
> > port 20 and is a second connection which requires special handling.
> 
> *blink*  *scratch head*  Why do you need to encrypt the data 
> channel at
> all?
> 
> Unless, of course, you're trying to FTP sensitive data...
> 
> -kgd
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