On Fri Feb 6 2009, Robert Dailey wrote: > 80 lines snipped First, learn to edit your posts better.
> Thanks for taking the time to explain everything. I think the problem > is that I want this to be simple. I want to allow a specific person > to use a portion of my hard drive for their personal backup, and SCP > comes to mind as the first solution. One person? That you trust enough to have some space but not visibility of things within your FS that aren't well protected? It *sounds like* you have a trust issue here, so consider what you are actually willing to offer this person. Depending on what reliability of this service, capacity and controls on that capacity, and what level of concern you have for this person's motivations and their own system's security .. you may want to opt out for the sledgehammer approach of a virtual machine. The problem with this is that it appears heavy. The upside is that you can give them access to a lump of data that is very easy to control the size of, they have the tools (if they want them) of managing their data replica on your system, you can migrate between hosts without installing and re-configuring a bunch of security software, you are very sure that they won't accidentally or otherwise be tripping around your file system full of live data, and they can use whatever tool they want at their end (SCP, as you suggest, would be a 30 second job to set up). And, really, virtualisation is pretty cheap now, in both senses of the word. Jedd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ rssh-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rssh-discuss
