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On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:31 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > > What I meant is "secure" ftp. |
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> > > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. |
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> > > |
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> > > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) |
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> > It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: |
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> Sorry, I should have mentioned that I know about that as well. |
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> Most other users are Windows users and they then to just like to click a |
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> link eg: |
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> ftp://1.2.3.4 |
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> and it'll open up in explorer. (users, they don't care, as long as it |
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> works) |
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> > # override default of no subsystems |
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> > Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server |
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> > Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. |
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> And I sincerely doubt windows explorer can do it. (Which is the problem) |
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Assuming you mean Microsoft Internet Explorer, you should check into a |
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microsoft windows mailing list if this has nothing to Gentoo or even Linux at |
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all. There are nice sftp/scp apps for windows - winscp works great. |
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