From kde-usability  Mon Aug 18 10:42:49 2003
From: Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:42:49 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Security and usability
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On Monday 18 August 2003 12:41, Roland Seuhs wrote:
> A perfect example would be scp ("fish" in Konqueror)

Sorry for nitpicking, but fish does not use scp. It installs a perl script on 
the remote system, which is controlled using the ssh shell.

> The user/password dialog should contain a checkbox that reads "always allow
> this computer access to user@machine (store public key on remote machine)"
> which would automatically append the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
> on the remote machine.

Good idea, please file it on bugs.kde.org.

> Or even better, when Konqueror is used in ftp-mode with a username and
> password, Konqueror could check if a ssh/scp server is also listening and
> if yes (and only if yes) ask the user wether to try scp instead of ftp.

This would be very difficult to get right - the check could take a long time 
if some firewall filters accesses to the ftp port, the user may not have a 
shell account etc...

bye...

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