[Deja News Toolbar] [Click here for My Deja News.] Click here for My Deja News. Article 29 of exactly 434 << >> /\ * Help * Post New Previous Next Current* Author Profile * Post Reply * Bookmark Article Article Results* View Thread * Email Reply* Text Only ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Encrypted FTP Transfers From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen) Date: 1998/03/02 Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.security.ssh [Subscribe to comp.security.ssh] [New!] [More Headers] Jack Levy wrote: >ssh hostname cat \> remote.file < local.file >ssh hostname cat remote.file > local.file > >.. the first line uploading and the second downloading. However, this >gets extremely tedious in the case of transferring multiple files, >especially those with long filenames or strange paths. Can anyone suggest >a more user-friendly solution? If a new daemon is required, I will Yes, use 'scp', as it was designed for copying files between hosts securely. If you still want to use FTP, you can do it. First log into the remote machine with 'ssh' with: ssh -L3321:remotehost:21 remotehost (where remotehost is the other machine name, and 3321 is an arbitrary port above the 1024 mark). Then you can 'ftp localhost 3321' to log into the remote machine via FTP over a secure link. You'll have to use passive mode to actually transfer data, so if your server or client doesn't support it, you're stuck with 'scp'. -- Jonathan Gapen - sysadmin - biker - caver - collecter of old computers ObGrammar Nitpick: "It's" is a contraction of "it is," while "its" is the posessive form of "it." "You're"-- contraction of "you are" and "your"-- posessive form of "you." That's not too hard, now is it? ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Click here for My Deja News.] Click here for My Deja News. ----------------------------------------------------------------- << >> /\ * Help * Post New Previous Next Current* Author Profile * Post Reply * Bookmark Article Article Results* View Thread * Email Reply* Text Only ----------------------------------------------------------------- IBM Netfinity | Directories | Classifieds | Yellow Pages About Deja News · New Users · Advertising Info · How are we doing? Home · Search · Post · My Deja News · Help ----------------------------------------- Copyright © 1995-98 Deja News, Inc. All rights reserved. Conditions of use.