Hello, I'd like to set up encrypted FTP (just the command channel would be fine) via SSH forwarding. The FAQ only mentions one thing about FTP via SSH, and that's to start up a SSH session to somewhere else and use -L to enable port forwarding. But this requires one to establish a SSH session and maintain it, which isn't suitable for our use since we'd want this forwarding to always be available. Which brings up the other question: If I'm on host A and I open a session to host B with the command "ssh -g -L 666:ftpserver:21 B", it connects me from A to B, and sets up a FTP forwarder as a side effect. Does this actually encrypt the traffic between A:666 and ftpserver:21, or does it just provide forwarding? I'm not very great with tcpdump or I'd answer the question myself... What's sftp-server? It's not covered in the FAQ or the man pages... If I get enough leads to put this all together, I promise I'll submit a nice and easy HOWTO to the list... :) -- Gregor Mosheh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Admin, Humboldt Internet 707.825.4638
