[TriLUG] GUI for OpenSSH and sftp?

[Robert Ryals]

Tomm Lorenzin wrote:

>I have been trying to find out how to transfer files securely between my
>home FC3 systems and my Apache web server.  Using Windoze XPee, I currently
>use the SSH Secure File Transfer client which has a nifty file-mangler-like
>GUI.  I would like to be able to do the same on my FC3 boxes, but I cannot
>discover (so far) how to do this, even tho there is every indication that
>the latest version of OSSH is present on both systems via up2date.
>
>I have managed to enter a few commands in a terminal window
>
>I entered (at a superuser terminal window) 
>
>ssh -l <username> <server.name> 
>
>...according to instructions found at:
>http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/4412
>
>...and after a few interesting msgs about authentication and fingerprints
>(???) and having to type "yes" ("y" was NOT an option), I was rewarded with
>a prompt for my pw. I entered that successfully and am now at a -bash-2.05b$
>prompt, which is just SO f***ing illuminating that I must be being blinded
>by the light!!!
>
>Am I to divine that I am at a TELNET prompt (?) and can sftp or something
>like it from here?
>
>Doesn't openssh for linux have a KDE or Gnome GUI interface that I can use
>like I am used-to on the M$ boxes?
>  
>
Konqueror has the "fish" protocol - files over secure shell.   Enter a 
URL like "fish://username@servername" as the Location.

Robert