Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:54:26PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > No idea what you mean by `is ssh supported'; sftp is supported.
> 
> Its an other protocoll; ssh is port 22, ftp is port 21/115.

No, not `ftp', `sftp'; they're completely different things.  sftp is a
file-transfer protocol that uses uses ssh as a transport, and has basically
nothing in common with `ftp' except a similar name.

> ssh uses public key authentication, ssh is already forwarded in the 
> firewall, ssh does not need the other side to make a connection to me if I 
> connect to them (making going through firewalls a major headace).

Yes, sftp has those things too, since it's layered on top of ssh.

> Its different; and ssh is more standard then sftp ever was.

Are you sure about that?  As far I know, sftp support is a standard part of
the ssh distribution (I mean `openssh' here).  It apparently doesn't work
well with ssh protocol version 1 though, so you probably (?) have to have ssh
protocol version 2 enabled.

-Miles
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