Issues with SFTP

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Whitaker, Kenneth wrote:

> 
> Things consider problems with sftp software
> 
>   - sftp manually first time to accept the fingerprint and anytime
> software is updated on host.

Only if you overwrite the key files, this is not done by default. BTW if we
just accepted the identity, then it wouldn't be _secure_ ftp anymore.

>   - no ascii mode only binary

Nor will there be.

>   - no verbose or indication of bytes transfered (you would do an ls
> after sftp is done)

Send a patch

>   - no mput or mget (this may be a show stopper) but could script could
> generate itself with all the filenames takes coding.

get & put take multiple filenames

-d