On Sunday, 2014-08-31, 15:29:51, Volker Wysk wrote: > Am Sonntag, 31. August 2014, 13:32:49 schrieb Reinhold Rumberger: > > Am Samstag 30.08.2014, 21:25:33 schrieb Volker Wysk: > > > I see. I guess I will wait for the next release of KDE to appear in > > > Debian. > > > The machines from which I wish to connect via SFTP are using an earlier > > > version (I think). I don't really need to connect to my own machine with > > > SFTP. ;-) > > > > Would using the fish:// protocol tide you over? It's what I usually use > > with ssh, and it seems to be working fine with the latest packages from > > debian. > I've never heard of this protocol, but I've tried it now, and it seems to > work fine. I assume it uses SSH and is secure. (The Wikipedia page mentions > RSH as another basis.) fish is basically meant as a fallback when the remote system does not have SFTP enabled but the user has SSH login. If I remember correctly it works by logging in and then "typing" a small Perl program which is then run as a simple "SFTP" server through the existing SSH connection. I think it is not as efficient as the real SFTP support but no less secure. Cheers, Kevin
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