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List:       secure-shell
Subject:    Re: --disable-=ftp
From:       Petteri Jantti <petterij () uk ! uu ! net>
Date:       2002-06-30 11:08:19
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jim Carter wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> > Why doesn;t such an option exist? Many regard sftp as useless and
> > redundant given scp.
> > Further, sftp would not compile when I was building 3.04 and had to be
> > stricken from
> > the Makefile.
> 
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config (in most distros) contains the line:
> 
> Subsystem               sftp /usr/local/openssh/libexec/sftp-server
> 
> (or whatever directories your distro puts stuff in).  Lacking this line,
> sshd cannot start sftp.  Just comment it out.
> 
> While scp is often the most convenient when you're working UNIX to UNIX on
> the command line, it's another story with Windoze.  SSH.com has a very
> nice Windows client which, besides the usual terminal window, has a sftp
> window which lists your remote files like what Windoze does, and you can
> drag and drop files into or out of the window.  I think PuTTY has something
> similar but I don't have experience with it.

On Windoze you could always opt to use PuTTY and Lars Gunnnarson's Secure
iXplorer (graphical frontend to PSCP)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.i-tree.org/

-Petteri


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