On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:36:43PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:33:27AM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: > | Hi there, > | > | does SFTP have no TAB-autocompletion for local/remote files? TAB > | doesn't work. It makes transferring files very clumsy. And does SFTP > | secure my username and password or only my file transfers by default? > > SFTP uses ssh and thus secures the entire connection. The sftp(1) > client that comes by default with OpenBSD does not do tabcompletion. > Feel free to use another client or to write support for it and send a > patch ;)
Anyone looking into this would probably want to look at what Ben Lindstrom has already done with this: http://www.eviladmin.org/patches/sftp-tab.patch -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
