[Gllug] scp / sftp comparison

[Paul Brazier]

> >As I understand it, scp requires the user to have a shell on 
> the remote
> >machine but sftp doesn't.
> 
> No no no no no! Crappy scp clients like winscp may require this (so
> that they can do an ls, and display the available files to the end
> user), but scp itself doesn't. 

Hmm, that's strange, I've been using the standard commandline scp on
Debian unstable and it's been giving me error messages (can't remember
what offhand) until I set the shell back. I guess there must be
something else wrong with my setup.

> We automate file transfers to third parties each night. For this,
> scp is ideal.

I've been looking into rsync over ssh for doing backup transfers over
the net. Seems very good for data that doesn't change much. I'm still
not totally clear whether I need a rsyncd running for this or if this is
only required for a "public" rsync service (e.g. for website mirrors)
but I'll invesigate further tonight.

Paul.


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