you can directly mount an ssh/sftp directory in the file browser, and drag-n-drop until your eyes glaze over. That actually works pretty well and might better suit the things you want to do.
I like it. Will give that a shot. <Evan heads off to Google "how to mount sftp directory in Linux file manager > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 12:13 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 4/25/19 9:09 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I was informed off-list: "SFTP is already installed on linux.You had to install FTP because no one uses it anymore as it has been deprecated. SFTP works just like FTP, and there are plenty of graphical clients for all platforms. It is, well, just secure (that's what the S in SFTP stands for)."
I didn't know that.
I will try it on my next trip down there this Saturday.
Evan, it might help to understand that ssh and FTP are protocols, not programs. Many programs implement those protocols, and there are sure to be more as time goes by. Interestingly and confusingly, the common program called sftp uses ssh (the protocol, via the ssh program) as its underlying transport mechanism.
If you're running under Linux, and I'm pretty sure OS X can do this too, you can directly mount an ssh/sftp directory in the file browser, and drag-n-drop until your eyes glaze over. That actually works pretty well and might better suit the things you want to do.
And FTP is no more "deprecated" than any other protocol, some random Linux distribution's assertions notwithstanding. Don't use it in cleartext on any unsecured network, but then that's good advice regardless of the protocol. As soon as I see an RFC that states that FTP is deprecated, then I'll agree that it's deprecated. Meanwhile, it continues to be used, for various perfectly valid reasons, all over the world.
I'd not recommend its use for your application, though, except locally.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA