ftp over ssl via openssh

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> Edward Peschko wrote:
>> >hey all,
>> >
>> >I was wondering if openssh did ftp via ssl connection - or if not - what 
>> >unix package out there did this.
>> 
>> No, OpenSSH doesn't do this.
>> 
>> Unsurprisingly, Google has lots of information on ftp over ssl.
>
>And unsurprisingly, google has very little information about a command line
>interface in unix that does ftp over ssl, probably because one doesn't exist.
>
>But seriously, why doesn't openssh do this? It seems like a pretty big 
>hole in its functionality..

There's "lftp" -- google's first hit.



Jan Engelhardt
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