* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:50:07 -0700) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. > > > > Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with > > my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to stop > > taking all these heavy hallucinogens... > > Sigh. No, it means those particular ftp clients ALSO happen to support > sftp. It does not mean any old regular ftp client can be used, which is > what you were implying.
I didn't imply that - by pure magic - any FTP client is also able to speak SFTP. By the way that's also true for FTPS, right?! Let me repeat: the advantage of using SFTP over pure ssh/scp is that a lot (not everyone) of people can use their /favourite/ ftp client (/not/ "old regular ftp client"). Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
