Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1324 mails)

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 12:54:22 Bob Williams wrote:
> Anne, thanks for your interest and reassurance, but I have a gremlin here.
> scp is almost more important to me than ssh, though the latter is now
> working, thanks to sterling help from David Rankin, who can expect a beer
> from me next time I'm passing through Nacogdoches :).
Good to know that you have a solution :-)  Yes, David has been helping folk 
for years, to my knowledge.

> I know I could use rsync, but it requires modules being setup beforehand,
> which makes it a bit less flexible for single file transfers.

Have you considered keychain?  I use it to handle keys, and with that passing 
my authorisations I can have a folderview on my desktop to my home directory 
on my server box and to another data directory.  If I just want to copy a few 
files across I can handle those directories in dolphin just like local ones.  
Keychain also makes it easy to do a backup shell script to rsync files between 
the two boxes.

I found an easy-to-follow howto on the net, set up keychain in about 5 
minutes, and have blessed the day ever since :-)

Anne