Alternative FTP client

[Jonas Norlander]

2007/12/19, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>
> Donn wrote:
>
> >> That's what I would have thought Jonas meant, and I _only_ use
> encrypted
> >> FTP - either sftp: or fish: (sftp is generally better, fish I think
> works
> >> if the only open port is 22, for ssh).
> >
> > He sent me this off-list:
> >> ftps is when you encrypt the ftp control and or data channels with
> >> TLS/SSL and is the only way to use ftp if you dont want to send your
> user
> >> and
> > password in clear text over the wire. You can read more on
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftps
> >
> > I don't know anything about ssl, and I'm not sure I want to ;) but it
> > looks like something Konqi (gasp) can't do ! The horror!
>
> No.  He's wrong - sftp and fish both work by establishing an ssh
> connection
> first, so I never send my user id and password in clear text.  (I'm not
> sure if the user id might be, but the password certainly isn't - in fact
> it
> isn't usually even present).
> --
> derek
>

I didn't said that SFTP is sending paswword i cleartext i sad that FTP do
it.
SFTP don't use the ftp-protokoll it uses ssh so dont mistake it for FTP.
FTPS on the other hand use the ftp-protokoll over an tls/ssl encrypted
channel.

Just to clear my name :-)

Have a nice day
/ Jonas
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