On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:39:37 +0200 Yves Goergen <nospam.list@???> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:15 PM CET, Richard Welty wrote:
> > um, normally sftp come bundled with ssh, so generic ftp daemons don't
> > really need to support sftp.
> ehm, i don't really understand this...
> is sftp just ftp over ssl?
NO.
sftp has a client which resembles traditional terminal based ftp
clients, but it tunnels over ssh. there is no sftp daemon running
on the client; the ssh client will forward the sftp requests to the
ssh daemon on the server end, which will then launch the sftp-server
process.
> if yes, then i'd prefer to get this directly by my ftp server, say
> proftpd.
> just because of all this user/path/rights configuration thing (which i
> plan
> to manage by a mysql database).
i think you're going to need a new plan.
if you want to offer tightly controlled sftp access, something like
rssh is in order (
http://www.pizzashack.org/). however, i think you'll find
that it isn't particularly amenable to a database driven solution.
> i've just looked at the manpages 'sftp' and 'sftp-server' but didn't
> quite
> get its meaning for ftp/ssl.
you got confused because you made an (understandable) assumption that
wasn't quite right.
richard
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