Issues with SFTP

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:29:15AM -0500, Whitaker, Kenneth wrote:
> Things consider problems with sftp software
> 
>   - sftp manually first time to accept the fingerprint and anytime software
> is updated on host.
>   - no ascii mode only binary
>   - no verbose or indication of bytes transfered (you would do an ls after
> sftp is done)
>   - no mput or mget (this may be a show stopper) but could script could
> generate itself with all the filenames takes coding.

We use http://www.xbill.org/sftp/.

Doesn't have everything you want but it does have 'exec' which OpenSSH
sftp does not (allows you to execute a remote command).

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)