Re: Samba and IPSec?

[Jan Johansson <janj@wenf.org>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:46:18AM -0600, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Jan Johansson wrote:
> 
> > How about making a batch file that uses pscp[1] and landing the file on
> > say their desktop? Seems like alot of trouble with IPsec for one file.
> 
> Agreed.  But, we need to set up IPSec anyway for other reasons, and I
> can't really send a file to their desktops without knowing where they
> are.  They'll be using individual dialups, so I can't predict their IP
> addresses.
> 
> What's pscp?  Doesn't appear on any of our boxen.
> 
pscp is putty scp. putty is a freeware ssh/telnet client. In short it
lets a Windows machine talk scp protocol to a ssh server.

For the same stuff on OpenBSD "man scp".

The syntax would be something like

pscp user@somehost.com:/private/secret/accoutning_file.txt c:\download

and the file would be transfered with encryption all the way over ssh.