In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Moen writes:
>begin Elliott Abraham quotation:
>
>> Does the OpenSSH which comes with OpenBSD 2.7 support sftp? I have used
>> sftp with the sshd from ssh.com. What do I need to?
>
>Quoting from http://www.openssh.com/faq.html :
>
>2.OpenSSH does not implement the SFTP subsystem.
>
>While the SSH protocol is an official IETF specification, the SFTP
>subsystem found in commercial SSH is not part of these official SSH
>protocol specifications. It is a proprietary protocol invented by SSH
>Communications Security Corp. It could be reverse engineered, but we
>have not yet invested efforts to do so.
>
Hmm -- SSH is *not* an official IETF protocol. There are drafts, but
none have been issued as RFCs, as best I can tell. When they are
issued, they'd likely be "Proposed Standards".
--Steve Bellovin
