Need to use ftps (NOT sftp) on RHAS4

[MacIntyre, Ross A]

I have been asked to setup a nightly download of files and I have to use
ftps. 

It has to be ftps and not sftp as the place from where I download the
files won't accept sftp connections - they told me it must be ftps.

 

Now I can already download with and ftp script, but when this is done
for real (quite soon!) then it has to be done securely. I am doing this
on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4. 

 

Can someone tell me where I can get ftps, or how to enable another piece
of software to use the ftps protocol? (Looking about I see that lftp is
already on the machine[as is sftp] and the man page for lftp says that
it supports the ftps protocol if it is compiled with the openssl
library)

But I don't know how to make lftp use the ftps protocol or how I would
check that it is using the ftps protocol.

 

Hope someone can help here,

Thanks in advance,

Ross

 

 

Ross Macintyre

 

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