On Tuesday 16 July 2002 18.05, Jonathan Lim wrote:

This is not a dig or anything, but I'm wondering why people are using FTP & telnet rather than scp/sftp and ssh?

speed? Unencrypted transmissions are significantly faster than their unencrypted counterparts, and on a local lan, protected by firewalls and whatnot, where you have root control of all systems, you really don't need encrypted transmisisons. You'd have to be rooted to be vulnerable, and then the damage is already done. //Anders

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 5:05 pm, you wrote:

Hi,

This is not a dig or anything, but I'm wondering why people are using FTP & telnet rather than scp/sftp and ssh?

Compatibility in our case. We have several hundred boxes running various versions of Linux, AIX, and other OSes. Some of them are ancient and are used for regression and compatibility testing. They all understand telnet and ftp out of the box; installing ssh clients on all of them would be a pain. -- 5:33pm up 5 days, 10:10, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.12, 0.04

Nils-Olov Fransson writes:

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This is not a dig or anything, but I'm wondering why people are using FTP & telnet rather than scp/sftp and ssh?

Simple and works without configuration.

I would rather say the opposite is true on SuSE Linux (7.3, 8.0).

I have just tried to configure ssh (I will wait with sftp). I managed to set it up so I can connect and login as root from one box to another on my LAN. Can anyone advise me of good installation instruction. I have tried find it in th HowTos and manpages but thats not clear enopugh for me.

sshd is configured and started automatically in the default SuSE Linux installation. The HOWTO may vary significantly according to your configuration - there is an O'Reilly book (SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/). -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se

Dear SuSErs, I have a installed running 8.0 system installed on a P-III SMP sys. It has 2 ultra scsi drives and a ATA-IDE HD. It has been running fine for a few months. Today I tryie dto add another ultrawide scsi drive from another older linux machine so that I could xfer files; thren I would have taken it out of the system. But it wouldn't boot or even pass the scsi bios so I pulled the drive and put the system back the way it was. Now the original system fails to boot. It gets to LILO and LILO "pours" screen-fulls of the characters 10 like a waterfall! I am able to boot the install CD to the rescue boot and the partitions look ok> fdisk -l shows the boot partition where it should be. but I don't know what to do from here. When I try to use the "Boot Installed System" from the Install CD it fails with a "Can't rad kernel" error and asks for the CD to be re-booted. Can I fix things from the 'rescue boot' ? I'm fairly sure that the data on the HDs is NOT corrupted but I have no idea why LILO 'pours' out the millions of "10" to the screen. I've looked at the suSE SDB and it only talks about variations of LILO failure where it only posta an 'L' or 'LI' or 'LIL' and such. Can anyone assist me, or point me to a reference or tutorial that will help me ger LILO fixwed? Thanks................ PeterB