sshd and ftpd

[Preston Kutzner]

On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Steven Susbauer wrote:

> Preston Kutzner wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing you need to load.  Sftp functionality is in-built in
>> sshd.  I would suggest uninstalling ftpd, however, since you don't
>> need it.  All you need to do to use sftp is use the sftp client on  
>> the
>> machine you want to connect from as follows:
>>
>> sshd username at hostname
>>
>> You'll be logged into the remote host and the sftp client will work  
>> as
>> you would expect a regular ftp client to work.
>
> It's even easier. In Gnome Ubuntu you can go to Places> Connect to
> Server and choose SSH, it will mount the remote system on the desktop.


Totally forgot about that.  I tend to be a command-line user in most  
cases, so I tend to more readily come up with command-line solutions.   
Does gvfs support connecting via sftp using ssh keys?  I don't have my  
ubuntu box handy to try it out myself.
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