[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

[Robert McKay]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Simon Stewart wrote:

> 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

sftp execv()'s ssh in order to make the connection. You can specify
arguments to pass to ssh via the -o option. I think
-oIdentiyFile=/path/to/identity is what you want.

-Robert.



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