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Every popular computer OS except android has an ssh client now. Just give the students and professors shells and have them put the documents in shared folders.

• curryst 7y ago
  This is kind of a manifestation of this agency problem, though. We, presumably the people that would write this theoretical software, have a vastly different background than the people who will use the software (general students, not just CS students). SSH is perfect for us; it's a well known and supported tool that's shared in countless other workflows. Can you imagine the struggles of an Art History student trying to submit a paper at 3am and getting a message back that host key verification failed? I suppose even before that, they would need to figure out navigation in SFTP. Or resort to a third-party GUI SFTP client; and the options that GUI will ask them for are probably bewildering. I can just hear them asking "What the fuck is a host/server? All they gave me is this stupid website, sftp-server.myuniversity.edu"
  • swiley 7y ago
    It’s common among chemistry students because of the incredibly expensive Unix software they use for calculating eg molecular orbitals. I’ve gone to their meetings and listened to them, they know little about computers and are taught to use ssh.
• mnw21cam 7y ago
  Android has a few of those too. Heck, there's an ssh server for Android.
  • swiley 7y ago
    Android doesn’t include an ssh client in the distribution.