retrieving files from unix servers

[Felix Lo]

Hi,

I used the secure ftp client part of the SSH program at nexus for the last
assignment to retrieve a file.

Is there any other ways to get a file from the unix shell account? I can't
seem to ftp from off campus

Thanks,

[Andre Masella]

Post by Felix Lo
Is there any other ways to get a file from the unix shell account? I can't
seem to ftp from off campus

FTP is highly insecure as it exchanges you password clear-text and you
should not use it (same goes for telnet).

There are two Windows-based secure FTP programs: pSFTP
[ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ] (CLI from the people
who made puTTY) and WinSCP [ http://winscp.sf.net ] (which hass graphical
Commander-like interface).

If you are using MacOS X or Linux, then you should have scp & sftp on the
command line.

[Danny Su]

yea just use scp or sftp
just another tip if you don't want to mess around with them

http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~username

above URL points to your public_html directory ;)