[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Sun Mar 24 13:22:23 UTC 2002


On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:04:31PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
> No.  You authenticate the same way with both scp and sftp.  The

Not entirely true, as I found out once when I had to sftp to a box
that only allowed key based logins (ie. didn't allow password based
logins)

Of course, if you know how to get sftp to use the "-i" flag from ssh
then I'd be interested in hearing how....

Cheers,

Simon

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