Re: secure ftp

[Michael Smith <msmith4@gladstone.uoregon.edu>]

If you're working on a workstation with X, GFTP (the recent version) can use sftp for
secure, guix ftp.  Just make a connection with ssh to get the key, and then select
the ssh protocol in GFTP.

brian moore wrote:

> 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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