D..8 Secure communications

The OSCAR team strongly recomends using ssh for all network logins, and scp to copy files either between OSCAR nodes, or to remote hosts. The use of telnet, rsh, ftp, and other legacy network applications are strongly discouraged because of inherent security risks (passwords are transmitted ``in the clear'').

ssh and scp are fully functional replacements for these legacy commands - OSCAR takes care of setting up all the authentication and key management issues for all users.



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