[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Wed 20 Mar, Paul Brazier bloviated thus:
> Could anyone give me a basic (one line) compare & contrast of scp and
> sftp?

scp = replacement to rcp ; sftp = replacement to ftp

> As I understand it, scp requires the user to have a shell on the remote
> machine but sftp doesn't.

Just like ftp doesn't require a shell account.  scp actually logs into
the remote host and runs scp.

> 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.

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