[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> [ On , October 7, 1999 at 16:11:15 (-0700), Harry Putnam wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: sftp
> >
> > Can some version be made to work with ssh-1.27?
>
> No, sftp can't work with SSH-1. But why would you want it to!?!?!?
>
I may have missed the boat here. I understood 'sftp' to be the secure
ftp client included with SSH-2*. I haven't been able to get SSH-2* to
compile or run on my RedHat 6.0 linux box. Also have SSH-1.27 (The
free one) installed on several boxes and didn't want to have to
wrestle with installing SSH-2 on them.
> FTP, as a protocol, is ancient and brain damaged. Most FTP clients are
> rather antiquated too, and most cannot be easily used in scripts. SSH
> provides file transfer and remote execution features directly, *and* it
> also has the ability to do port forwarding to allow you to easily
> proxy/tunnel any basic TCP service (FTP is *not* such a service though).
> SSH is designed to be easy to use in scripts too. What more could you
> possibly ask for?
My understanding was that 'sftp' did all the things you mention above.
SSH-1.27 has "scp", which does many of the things an ftp client does
but not all. I thought 'sftp' would fill in the rest.
