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How to pick a lousy password
It seems we live in an age where we have to think of new passwords every week. In the good old days, you could browse a web site, even order stuff, without having to create an identity first. Now, every site wants you to create an ID, in the hope that they can gleam more [...]
Why Can’t I Supply a Password to the sftp Command From Inside a Macro?
Recently a number of VOS and OpenVOS customers have switched from using the standard ftp client (ftp.pm) to the secure ftp client (sftp.pm). There are two primary reasons for using sftp over ftp. First, sftp never sends the password in plaintext; it is always encrypted. Second, sftp encrypts the data during transmission. However, it seems that many [...]
