You might check out lftp. It's fish protocol works over an ssh connection. Rsync is still the way to go for backups and the like though. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't. Thomas Stivers stivers_t@ev1.net http://stivers-home.dyndns.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Secure FTP > John: > > scp is great only if you know a filemask for the files you want. It's not > so hot if you need to specify a lot of files. > > sftp, on the other hand, is a bit better, but still not at the level of > something like ncftp, which I swear by. > > So, I just use ncftp, because it works well, and I guess I takes my > chances on the security part. > > Of course, if I know the file I want (which happens often, very often), I > do use scp. > > PS: Take a look at the man page for ssh-agent. I just discovered this > little gem yesterday. Very helpful. > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > Hello, > > Thanks to all the people the other day who told me how to get ssh working. > > That's fine now. The next thing is to do secure ftp. I looked at scp, but > > it doesn't seem very interactive, or there are so many options that I > > can't see how it is normally used. This is a common failing of man and > > even info pages. > > Thanks. > > John > > > > > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >