secure ftp server for linux

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:29:29AM -0400, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:
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> 
> What's a good replacement for FTP? I remember using WinSCP back in the day
> for SCP connections. IIRC, it worked with any host that has SSH setup. Or
> maybe that was just a coincidence? I'm not sure.
> 
> I've been trying to find a client for Linux that would do the same. gFTP has
> a SSH connection option, but it doesn't work for the hosts which support SCP.
> 
> Any ideas?

It's using SFTP, not SCP.  Both of them tunnel file transfers over SSH, but
they use _totally_ different mechanisms under the covers to do this.

I believe that scp requires nothing more than an ssh connection, while
sftp requires something like the following line in sshd_config:
Subsystem   sftp  /usr/libexec/sftp-server

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