POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Data transfer : Re: Data transfer Server Time
30 Jul 2024 02:28:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Data transfer  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 13 Sep 2011 12:28:47
Message: <4e6f84bf$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:24:25 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:17:02 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>> > I'm not aware of any Unix system which *defaults* to letting remote
>> > users access the entire filesystem if they know the root password.
>> > Probably because it's a stunningly bad idea, unless the local network
>> > is trusted. But anyway...
> 
>> Every unix system can do this with something like sshfs installed - on
>> the client side only - and sshd running on the server.
> 
>   Anyways, sharing an entire file system is often overkill, if your goal
> is to simply transfer one file to another person.

Sure, that's what scp is for.

Jim


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