Transferring file to local machine when SSHing into a foreign box

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Ángel González <keisial at gmail.com> wrote:
> The big problem with that approach is that you're trusting your
> credentials to the remote side.
> If I ssh from A to B, and B is compromised, it shouldn't be able to
> compromise A.
> Can you provide an alternative usage without that hole?
>

Sure: just reuse the existing connection. Just like how sftp works.


> It may be an issue to be solved in a client, which allowed you to switch
> between console and file view (sftp).
>

That would be nice.


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