Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/22/14:26:36
In the case of sftp, It would make more sense that the client be the one to support it.
However, if the user never has to get a directory listing, and/or the directory is cluttered with many files, the client would be doing a lot of work for nothing. I finally got the chance to sftp from a linux box to a linux box, and as I suspected, there is NO completion. So I wouldn't expect sftp-server for cygwin to work. However, I like the client idea, even if it does require more client work. So I will look for one.
Yes, it is true, I'm using sftp for security reasons, but also because it only uses ONE port, very useful for tunneling.
FYI:
"now ncftp is yet another ftp client" - actually "yafc" is yet another ftp client and it works pretty good, but doesn't support sftp. ncftp doesn't support it either. But I'll keep looking.
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> jwaterbrook wrote:
>
> > That's what I was fishing for. and the comment about sh and cmd not
> > supporting it was exactly what I was wondering (I just didn't know it
> > yet :) ). "shell at home is bash with completion set up" - I guess my
> > next question is what did you have to do to set it up besides just
> > using the executable?
>
> While it is true that it is the remotely running shell that may or may
> not provide filename completion, jwaterbrook is not running a shell
> session - he's running an ftp session (I assume that sftp is secure ftp).
>
> Now ncftp is yet another ftp client and it does provide for filename
> completion with the tab key. How exactly it does it I don't know (I
> suspect in response to a tab character for filename completion it uses
> ftp to get the directory listing then figures out just how far to got in
> completing the filename itself - IOW not by relying on any software
> running on the remote machine).
>
> So ncftp would solve his problem, except that I suspect, since he's
> using sftp he's concerned about security and wants his ftp session
> encrypted(?). If that be the case then I'm not sure that ncftp encrypts
> the traffic.
>
>
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