Re: Secure FTP

[Andor Demarteau <ademarte students cs uu nl>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

 > Hello,
 > Thanks to all the people the other day who told me how to get ssh working.
 > That's fine now. The next thing is  to do secure ftp. I looked at scp, but
 > it doesn't seem very interactive,
well yeah, but it's your only fast solution to do secure filestransfer.

 > or there are so many options that I
 > can't see how it is normally used. This is a common failing of man and
 > even info pages.
maybe so, but the hard one would be to use the tcp-tunneling feature of
ssh and then use a normal ftp-client.
Trouble is that ftp is such a discusting protocol in this sense that I
never got it to work in either active or passive-mode.

 > Thanks.
 > John
 >
 >
 >

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