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Re: need help with sftp



On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a new Sid installation I need to ftp some files to another computer on
> the network.  sftp appears to be the only ftp program available.  The other
> computers on the network do not use ssl so the ftp connection is refused
> from both directions.  One computer is using vsftp under Jessie.  I don't
> see any option that makes sftp just do plain ordinary ftp.  Is this
> hopeless?
> 
sftp != ftp != ftps

sftp - "secure" ftp (i.e., implementation of FTP-like protocol, that is
not actually FTP, over SSH transport)

ftp - "traditional" file transfer protocol

ftps - FTP with SSL (very rarely used)

If the server in question is running vsftpd, then you want to use a
client like lftp or inetutils-ftp or similar.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez


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