Re: PGP

["Bergeron, Hugo" <Hugo.Bergeron@MICROCELL.CA>]

You might wanna take a look at the scp command.

Here's what I contributed to Yahoo' Peoplesoft-Fans discussion group a few
months ago:

>From what I understood from the guy in our Security Department, the
>command scp allows us to send encrypted copies between machines under
>UNIX. The host and target machines must have the SSH package
>installed and be properly setup. The command uses authorized keys to
>open its door to the other machines. Once these keys are set you
>simply use this command (use CALL SYSTEM in SQR):
>
>host1 $> scp test host2:/export/home/sun/.ssh/test
>
>and that does it all, encrypted copy between hosts, without asking
>for a password.
>
>Maybe a more technical Peoplesoft-Fan could give more details on the
>installation process, and if indeed the files are encrypted. All I
>know is that on the developper side, it allows to write programs
>without coding sensitive information like passwords and usernames in
>the source code.


Another member replied:

There is one issue with using scp instead of ftp when transferring files
between unix and windows machines.

With ftp, if you specifiy ascii transfer mode, the end of line character
will be converted from unix to dos/win. scp does not do this. A file
tranfer with scp is like a binary transfer using ftp. Without the end of
line conversion, dos/win programs may think there is only one line of data
in the file because it cannot find an end of line delimiter (CR/LF).

However, there are utilities for both unix and windows to convert files
after (or before) they are transferred.

There you go HTH,

Hugo Bergeron

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Kelling [mailto:Bruce_Kelling@ADVANTECHSOLUTIONS.COM]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:44 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: PGP


Use the call system command to execute a bat file or Unix script.  The .bat
or script can run PGP, then FTP command.  Keep in mind, the FTP process will
need to read in user/password from a separate file.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Nuccio, Vincent [mailto:vincent.nuccio@ATTWS.COM]
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:27 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: PGP


I am trying to determine the best solution to encrypt all of our files that
we send through our FTP server.  Do anyone of you know the best way to code
the PGP in SQRs?

Thanks.

Vince Nuccio

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