Secure FTP

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As I said, try sftp.  It fits the exact description of what you are
asking.


On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, John wrote:

> scp is actually quite simple for most purposes. This command
> scp gw:/etc/passwd /tmp
> will copy the passwd file from my computer to the /tmp directory on my
> computer.
>
> You can, of course, copy from your computer to a remote one:
> scp my-delights gw:/tmp
>
> You can also use wildcards in the usually Linux manner:
> scp gw:/var/ftp/pub/* /tmp
> and the most likely switches are
>  -r for recursion
>  -q to turn off the progress meter
>  -p to preserve permissions, timestamps etc.
>  -C to turn on compression, you would want this if there's a modem or other
> slow network between you and the remore computer.
>
> If ssh is configured to work without password prompts, then scp will too.
>
>
> On Saturday 17 August 2002 05:29, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
>





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