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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject:  Re: sftp removing writable bit
Date:  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:17:39 +0100
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* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:38:51 -0700)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have
> > > over say... scp?
> > 
> > You can use your favourite FTP client, right?!
> 
> No, that's ftps.  sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp.

Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with 
my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to stop 
taking all these heavy hallucinogens...


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