Re: ITP: sftp

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 04:14:45PM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:04:34 +0200 (MET DST), Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu> said:
> > > >
> > > > sftp is an ftp replacement that runs over an ssh tunnel.
> > > 
> > > Great!  I was just wanting something like this last week, I didn't know
> > > it existed already.
> > > 
> > 
> > there is a program called hsftp which does the same (with the advantage that
> > it does not need a special servr at the other end)
> > I do not know the url, look at freshmeat
> > (I may even package it when I get up to it)
> 
> I just checked it... does not seem to work...
>

it works for me....
 
> gorgo@thunderchild:/tmp/hsftp-1.5$ ./hsftp lutra
> Warning: Server lies about size of server host key: actual size is 1023 bits vs. announced 1024.

wasn't there something about incompatibilities between openssh and ssh
resulting in warnings like this?

> ** ERROR **: Could not get remote home directory.
> gorgo@thunderchild:/tmp/hsftp-1.5$ ./hsftp localhost
> 
> and it hangs here...

perhaps you should tell the upstream author...


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