Re: Not OFFLIST Re: TECH: info on ftp

Den 27. aug. 2008 kl. 14.33 skrev Mark J. Reed:

> Ssh is not cumbersome - there's an "sftp" that works like regular ftp
> but uses ssh, so the interface looks the same. It is more flexible -
> but that's a security tradeoff for the provider.  If you have ssh
> access you can actually execute commands on the server, in addition to
> reading and writing files, which is more dangerous for them.  But it
> opens up opportunities to use things like rsync, which is a smart file
> transfer system that only sends the parts of a file that have changed.
Ok, thanks for the info. Quite a bit more to find on the internet it
seems. It's even possible to use it in Max OS X without any extra
software, although that is cumbersome. But YummyFTP, the program I
normally use for file transfer, seems to have some sftp functionality
as well.

LEF