ftp over ssl via openssh

[Edward Peschko]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:02:21AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt 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..
> 
> There's "lftp" -- google's first hit.

lftp doesn't do ssl connect (ssl negotiation over a separate port), 
*and* auth tls, *and* auth ssl. I need all three. I looked at 

    http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-phf/ftps-ext.html

and its hard to believe, but out of the forty distributions there,
there doesn't seem to be one ftps implementation that is portable
to the extent that I need, does all three schemes, and is freeware, 


So far, the best I've got is c-kermit, but that's sort of an odd-duck.
It works better on the legacy machines (solaris, etc) and I'm having 
difficulties in compiling for my linux box.

Anyways, I could use this or lftp, but it seems silly to have two 
different distributions (lftp, openssh) with two separate 
end user interfaces.  Why did the openssh project choose not to 
include it?

Ed