ftp over ssl via openssh

[Edward Peschko]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:26:02PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> 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..

Ed