> I'm trying to get various statisticians to run performance tests on > their machinery and have my "tester" put the results (roughly 30K file > per run) onto my server. I can do this in a cross-platform way with scp > (pscp in Windows, not sure on Mac yet, but there should be an scp > client). However, this uses key pairs and possibly opens up the pseudo > user on my server. Does anyone have pointers to how to lock down > security holes? I'd like to avoid using web protocols and just keep ssh > open if I can. > I had a similar requirement (automated/secure transfer of telemetry data from multiple field sites to a central data centre). My solution was to use OpenVPN with X.509 certificates coupled with FTP and a .netrc script. OpenVPN is supported on all of the platforms that you mentioned. MikeR.