SFTP Administration?

[Johan Bergström]

lftp is a client that supports it, if its compiled with openssl support.
Example of usage is lftp ftps://my.secure.ftpserver/home/johan

Johan

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I know, this doesn't have to do with speakup but I have a question for
> anyone who might have had some experience with Secured FTP (SFTP).  So
> far, I realize that SFTP is a subset of ssh so I don't think any of
> the conventional FTP servers like proftp have any chips in the deal.
> I'm setting such a thing up on a private machine for my friend and
> haven't been able to find much on controling access and rights.  What
> I've done so far is to add users on this machine like any other shell
> accounts but force their default directory to be /home/ftp instead of
> /home/user-id.  I then put some symbolic links in this ftp directory
> to point to the various download areas.  So far, the permissions look
> good but I'd like to tighten things up a bit; I would like to "lock"
> the users into the /home/ftp directory and subdirs.  Another rinkle
> here is the sym links.  Once you cd to a symlinked directory, doing a
> cd .. takes up from that point, and not back to where you were
> before.  One big disadvantage to symbolic links, I guess.
>
> Another question, are there any sftp clients out there for linux that
> might be a bit better than the strait sftp command? I wish ncftp could
> do it, but it doesn't look like it can.  Also many of the future users
> of this machine are from winblows; what are some good sftp clients for
> winblows?  Personally, I like FTP Voyager but 9.0 has SSL support but
> does not appear to do sftp specifically.  I think it may be locked
> into connectivity with their own server, Serv-u.
>
> Any ideas on this stuff?
>
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