Need to use ftps (NOT sftp) on RHAS4

[Ben]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, MacIntyre, Ross A wrote:

> [...]
> 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.
> [...]

I recommend using curl(1) rather than lftp.  It's easily scriptable.

Ben
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