Re: secure transfers and authentication

[Francisco Neira Basso <fneira () defensoria gob pe>]

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Ali, Saqib wrote:
> Hi Francisco,
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> How do recursively copy files/folders/subfolders from source to
> destination using SCP? Do you use a script? If so, can you please
> share with us? Thanks
>
> saqib
> http://doctrina.wordpress.com/
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> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Francisco Neira Basso
> <fneira () defensoria gob pe> wrote:
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> >  mgk.mailing wrote:
> >  > Hi List
> >  >
> >  > I was wondering if anyone had run across anything that would help with
> >  > my current project.   I am looking to automate transfers over an
> >  > insecure network where both the client and server are authenticated to
> >  > each other.  My current line of thinking is using ssl signed
> >  > certificates from our Certificate authority to do the authentication and
> >  > then https to transfer the data.  Putting aside that http may not be the
> >  > best transfer mechanism for data can anyone make any suggestions or
> >  > point out any potential pitfalls that maybe there?  It is vital that the
> >  > transfer is protected and that the client and server is authenticated.
> >  > Thanks
> >  >
> >  > mgk
> >  >
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  What about scp?

Hello Saqib,

I usually use "scp -r /my/source/dir destination_host:/destination/dir"

There is also a tip I found on Google to avoid the password prompting
previously sharing the public key:

http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_scp_without_password.html

HTH

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Francisco Neira B.
Seguridad de la Informacion
Defensoria del Pueblo
Lima, Peru  -05:00 UTC
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