[CLUE-Tech] SSH and SFTP

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 04-11 18:31, Dave Anselmi wrote:
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > I was confusing SFTP discussion at meeting with this method of (sort of)
> > encrypting ftp:
> >
> > http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq-5.html#ss5.6
> 
> One of the case studies in the O'Reilly book is about tunneling ftp over
> ssh.  It was out of scope for my talk, so I didn't pay any attention.
> 
> It isn't too hard to forward the command connection over ssh using passive
> mode.  There are some gotchas and NAT complicates the picture.  It turns out
> the data connection can be forwarded too (SSH2 or OpenSSH) but it requires
> setting up ports by hand so it's too long to discuss here.
> 
> I haven't found a need to do that sort of thing, anyway.  scp seems
> perfectly adequate, but if you prefer an ftp style interface use sftp
> (unless you only have the v1 server--then you're stuck).

Yeah, so far the only one I've needed was scp. At one client, I was looking
into forwarding ftp over ssh and using Java to programmatically put files
on a remote W2K machine, but my contract was up before I could finish that. 

I'm going to be scripting the getting of files via scp soon, so I may be
asking some questions related to that, as I've never done that before. So
your presentation was certainly timely. 

Cheers,

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