Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Portability of archives?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

    Tom> If it supports ssh, you should be able to get an sftp setup
    Tom> running, perhaps with some (pretty trivial) "local
    Tom> customization" of the tla sftp transport.

Huh?  sftp requires a separate binary _on the server_, and must be
enabled in the sshd configuration _on the server_.

It may just be the (pretty trivial) matter of requesting the hosting
service to enable a secure service they didn't know they could
support, but it is not a "local" matter.  Eg, the problems that have
come up wrt to sftp on Savannah are entirely administrative.

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