[ILUG] sftp with ncftp

[Scott Wunsch]

On Wed, 06-Mar-2002 at 01:21:18 +0100, David Neary wrote:

> I like the security of sftp, but I like the interface and
> features of ncftp - is it possible to just get ncftp to use ssl
> as it's transport layer (or whatever the correct phrase is), and
> keep the feature set while gaining the securite of ssh/ssl?

It's a nice idea, but the problem is that sftp actually has nothing to do
with ftp.  It's only called sftp because the standard client provides an
interface that looks a bit like ftp; the actual protocol has nothing to do
with the hairy grotesqueness that is ftp.  It's not just a matter of
wrapping SSL around the old ftp protocol.

-- 
Take care,
Scott \\'unsch

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