[clue-admin] SCPonly

[David L. Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Just tossing this out so it'll be "bookmarked" in the admin archives.
> 
> http://sublimation.org/scponly/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

This is funny:

"This allows an administrator to share files in the same way an anon ftp 
setup would, only employing all the protection that ssh provides. This 
is especially significant if you consider that ftp authentications 
traverse public networks in a plaintext format."

Anonymous FTP isn't authenticated so it doesn't need the protections SSH 
provides.  The data is public so it doesn't need encryption.  And SSH 
doesn't protect against traffic analysis, which is the only other thing 
you might care about.

Obviously if you are doing authentication SSH is good stuff.  But then 
it isn't anonymous.

OK, OK, it was funny to me.  So maybe a display of my twisted sense of 
humor is funny to you. :-)

Dave