Re: Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP possible??

[Keith Roberts <keith karsites net>]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Paul Hartman wrote:

> To: Mc gnome org
> From: Paul Hartman <paul hartman+gentoo gmail com>
> Subject: Re: Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP possible??
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Keith Roberts <keith karsites net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> >
> > > To: jtwdyp ttlc net
> > > From: Yury V. Zaytsev <yury shurup com>
> > > Subject: Re: Midnight Commander is my favorite FTP tool But is SFTP
> > > possible??
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:19 -0400, Joe Philbrook wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is this possible with MC?
> > > > If not are there any plans to implement such a thing??
> > > > It would be awesome...
> > >
> > > Support for SFTP is being worked on right now by Ilya. I don't have any
> > > ETAs, but there is code that is already functional in git, so it will be
> > > shipped at some point.
> >
> > I'm not sure what platform you are on, but while you are waiting there is
> > gFTP for Linux that supports FTPS, and on Windows there is WinSCP.
>
> SFTP and FTPS are not the same thing, BTW. :)
>
> FTPS is traditional FTP protocol with SSL-encrypted control channel
> SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol, not related to traditional FTP

OK. Thanks for pointing that out and correcting me on that 
Paul ;)

Kind Regards,

Keith

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