Re: secure ftp

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:24:23 -0700, brian moore said:
> 
> : On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:18:08PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote:
> :  > Hi all,
> :  > 
> :  > If you have ssh2 installed there is sftp2.
> :  
> :  If you have openssh installed, there is 'sftp', even available as a deb
> :  of the same name.
> :  
> 
> That's good to know.
> So is openssh the equivalent of ssh2? And more importantly is it backwards
> compatible with the older version of ssh?

Openssh currently supports both ssh1.5 and ssh2 protocols.  So, yes,
you can use it in place of ssh-nonfree and/or ssh2 (hence the name
change with potato -- 'ssh' refers to openssh).  The sftp2 that
works with ssh2 is proprietary, as I recall.  It only works with ssh2,
which has that evil non-free license, so I've never looked seriously at
it.

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