Leo wrote:
> Diego Andres Alvarez wrote:
>
>> Dear all!
>>
>> I want to send several files of 50 MB to a friend who lives in another
>> city. Since the files are so big, I cannot send them by email. My
>> question is, which utility can I use to send those files given that I
>> dont want my friend to use passwords (for example using ssh to access
>> to my account).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diego Andres
>>
> What I did was to make sure I had midnghtcommander installed and sshd
> was running on both. I got the ip address of the other machine as well
> as the root pass word then used mc to do the transfers. It worked for me
> with no problems.

1.) What did you need midnightcommander for? Just use scp, since you seem
to have sshd running on both machines.

2.) If you are running sshd on both machines, what did you need the root
pass word for? No sysadmin should give that out.

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