Re: The yearly FTP rant (Was: Re: Passive FTP and NAT/PAT with PIX and Serv-U)

[Matt Curtin <cmcurtin () interhack net>]

"Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr com> writes:

> Someone ought to write a version of scp that has exactly the same
> interface as FTP (but none of the network protocol) and then we
> could invisibly swap it out and have done with this most horrible
> bodge of a protocol...

Does sftp(1) do what you're looking for?  (It's not quite an invisible
swap, since it introduces handling of host keys and there are some
newfangled options, but it's pretty close.)

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Author,  Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security  (Apress, 2001)
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