proftpd+tls h sftp?

[Christos Ricudis]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:37:48 +0000
Mario Saturno <blade at teilam.gr> wrote:

> Hthela na rwtiso pia einai h ousiastiki diafora anamesa sthn metafora
> arxion apo ftp+tls/ssl kai sftp. Ki an to ftp einai ontws pio grigoro
> giati se kati dokimes pou exw kanei me megala arxia, panw apo 500 MB, h
> taxitita mou fenete panw katw idia. Kai stis dio periptwsis ta data
> pernane apo to diktio encrypted, h diafora einai mono sto encryption?
> Pios einai o pio "asfalis" tropos apo tous dyo?

Shmantikh diafora de 8a deis. To sftp einai ena extremely ugly hack of what would  unhopefully like to be something remotely resembling FTP over SSH in another life assuming somebody so utterly insane that would want to allow it to live beyond infancy, which he shouldn't.  

Wstoso exei to kalo oti 8a to breis opoudhpote trexei ki enas sshd, dhladh sxedon pantou opou to xreiazesai, se anti8esh mallon me to proftpd+TLS. Epishs yparxei to complication oti sxedon se opoiadhpote TLS/SSL efarmogh prepei na dhmiourgeis certificates, ktl - to ssh ta dhmiourgei sthn egkatastash. 

To FTP+TLS/SSL apo thn allh pleyra einai - h 8a eprepe na einai - h standard me8odos gia na kaneis ayto poy 8eleis. Clear design, client independent (to lftp einai me apostash o kalyteros ftp client poy exw dei, kai yposthrizei SSL/TLS), oso mporei protocol independent, exeis na epilekseis metaksy arketwn implementations, ktl. An ola ayta sou fainontai asteia, kane ena 

$ echo "echo Deite ti wraia poy ton pairnei to sftp" >> ~/.bashrc 

kai dokimase na kaneis sftp sto account sou :> 

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