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Old 05-09-2002, 10:30 AM   #14
MaggieL
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Re: WinSCP2 = GUI

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Originally posted by mbpark

As opposed to standard SCP, which is painful, WinSCP2 allows me to instruct our site people quickly on how to update web sites, without using evil unencrypted and bandwidth hogging FTP.OpenSSH for Windows runs as a service...
Now, that's a cool thing. Goes right into my bag-o-tricks.
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It takes me about 4-5x the time it takes me to set up a Linux box to set up a Windows one, since Microsoft turns on EVERYTHING by default.
The more features they leave turned on, the more likely that some less-than-clueful local junior developer will build a dependancy on them.

Oh, Tony....one tip I know if you absolutely must run an FTP service is to change the greeting message, making it harder for a script to figure out which exploits to try first. But with the ability to run scp, FTP is much less necessary.
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