[ On , October 8, 1999 at 04:39:17 (-0700), Harry Putnam wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sftp
>
> I may have missed the boat here. I understood 'sftp' to be the secure
> ftp client included with SSH-2*.
Yes, that's supposedly the case. As far as I can tell sftp was added
because people claimed they couldn't live without an FTP-like interface
to SSH. Nobody's ever given any concrete evidence of this fact to the
best of my knowledge though.
> 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.
I cannot imagine anything that ssh and scp can't do together that any
Unix-style FTP client can do (with the exception of perhaps specialised
things like re-starting a failed transfer -- something that ssh and scp
couldn't do without additional lines of shell script assisting them).
In fact for anyone already accustomed to using simple shell scripts and
commands like 'cp', ssh & scp can do infinitely more than any normal FTP
client can on its own.
I think sftp is simply for people who's ability to learn and adapt has
been somehow lost or turned off or something! ;-) Otherwise it was
just a waste of a "small matter of programming."
--
Greg A. Woods
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