Issues with SFTP

[Dan Kaminsky]

> so you think sftp is only usable if it clones very possible command
> from every possible ftp client?

You get into a car.  There is no steering wheel, and the gas pedal is on the
ceiling.

Do you think a car is only usable if it clones every possible knob from
every possible vehicle?  No, but everything since the Model T has had a
wheel and a gas pedal...

s* transparently copied the syntax of r*; sftp is the first standard ssh app
with its own command interpreter but it's no less bound to support the
generic set of commands found in everything from Windows 95 to Solaris 2.5.1
to probably the ancient days of ftp.

I'm actually really lucky on this -- unlike, say, ps, variant branches of
ftp generally changed the name of the client code, making basic BSD-derived
FTP pretty homogenous.

Remember -- we *are* trying to eradicate the very insecure FTP protocol from
the net.

--Dan