ftp with user root

[Viktor Lazlo]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 MPAREDES at telmex.com wrote:

>
> Hi Robin and Director:
>
> The situation is, I have 3 servers, now sun, but planning to
> change them to FreeBSD, so right now I have a program in FoxPro
> to administer the database of diskless, with this program I
> generate the bootptab and download periodically to the servers
> in case of somebody modify the file in one of the servers and
> don't notify me (I am not the only administrator).
>
> The program in FoxPro and the ftp is run in a windows, so I
> can't use sftp, nfs, etc..

Putty and various other Windows ssh-packages will allow you to use
sftp/scp from a Windows workstation to transfer your file, then ssh in to
make any further changes necessary.

Cheers,

Viktor