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* Re: [gentoo-user] FTPs - Is there such a thing?
  @ 2006-07-13  6:26 99%     ` Justin Krejci
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From: Justin Krejci @ 2006-07-13  6:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user; +Cc: Donnie Berkholz, gentoo-user

On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:58 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > What I meant is "secure" ftp.
> > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http.
> >
> > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple)
>
> It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
>
> # override default of no subsystems
> Subsystem   sftp    /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server
>
> Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not.
>

there is scp (part of openssh) and also sshfs which allows you to mount an 
sftp connection as a local directory.

If you don't want to mess with ssh (why? it is really easy stuff) read this
http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext.html
With this ftps I am not sure if just logins are encrypted or if data tranfers 
are encrypted as well.
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