[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Wed Mar 20 15:43:49 UTC 2002


On 20/03/02, 15:09:17, Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net> wrote regarding 
Re: [Gllug] scp / sftp comparison:

> > Are there any situations when scp would be preferable to sftp?

> When you don't have the ftp port open on an intermediate firewall but
> do have the ssh port open.

If I were the kind of person to type "Bzzzt!  Uh-uh" (which I won't, 
cause I hate that), I would type it now.  sftp works over an ssh 
connection, as anybody who had actually used it or even glanced at the 
man page would know.

-- 

Bruce

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