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On 2006-06-28 Dan Shoop wrote:
> At 10:42 AM +0100 6/28/06, Simon Slavin wrote:
>> On 27 Jun 2006, at 4:34pm, Mac OS X Server Administrator wrote:
>>> FTP is lame and old-school. SFTP is much better. We all know that.
>>> Here's the thing: which of the following situations is better?
>>
>> If you're considering switching from FTP to some other system, then
>> you should also consider WebDAV. One advantage of WebDAV is that
>> clients for it are built into both OS X and recent versions of
>> Windows, and they can both be used in ways which leave the password
>> stored elsewhere in the system -- Keychain, for instance. This means
>> that your user only has to remember the password they use to log into
>> their own computer.
>
> Umm... the same holds true for the ssh keys used for sftp in ~/.ssh,
> no?
Yes. But SFTP still is in essence SSH (IOW a remote shell), whereas
WebDAV isn't. Since the OP had issues with his users having shell
access, WebDAV may be the better choice for him.
Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning."
--Joel Spolsky
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