[Courses] uses for ssh

[Michelle Murrain]

At 03:36 PM 3/8/2002, Laura Bowser wrote:

> >>         I eventually want to have a discussion of all the cool things
> >>you can do with ssh, too.  Most people only use it for one thing, and
> >>while it's a great secure telnet replacement, there are so many more cool
> >>things you can do with it.  Sometime after firewalls, I suspect.
> >
> >Sounds like a great idea.  scp (secure copy) is my friend, and I'm sure
> >there are plenty of other useful things that can be done with it that I've
> >never thought to try!
>
>There was an article in this month's sysadmin (www.sysadmin.org) about using
>ssh to secure NFS in Linux.  It's something I'd like to try since we use NFS
>to share large hard drives with small laptops on our internal network, but I
>haven't gotten around to it yet.  The other option is using AFS, and although
>it's very nice in a multiuser environment (I go to CMU and use it on the
>campus servers), it's a PITA to set up because of all ther Kerberos stuff
>needed.  And it's usally not worth it if you've got 2-3 people using the
>machines.

Apparently you can use it to secure POP as well.

.Michelle

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