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Subject: Re: Security and usability
From: Tim Jansen <ml () tjansen ! de>
Date: 2003-08-18 10:42:49
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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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