[TriLUG] Ftp with SSL

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 14:29:08 EST 2006


On 2/3/06, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> sftp is a subsystem of ssh2.  I use it all the time, works great.  Of
> course, that only works for system users.  proftpd allows support for its
> own users that aren't necessarily system users.  If you need this, sftp
> isn't for you.

Some clients (lftp or anything that uses kde ioslaves) will work with the
fish:// protocol which does pretty much the same thing as ftp or sftp but
uses only ssh commands and works with any users.

Cheers,
Tanner
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