First, you must have a FTP client, that supports SSH. (firefox has a great plugin, FireFTP, that does this. Or sftp, in standard repositories of most distros.)
Then, you have to be able to login to the server, that is, you must have a system account, that you can login through SSH.
Then, you should edit your /etc/ssh/sshd_config and comment out the line
and add
instead.
Then, restart your sshd:
Restart your ftp daemon, just in case.
Cross your fingers, and try to login (through port 22, since you are login in through SSH).
Hi,
I'm being told that I have to start using SFTP from my server (HPUX 11i), so heres a few questions;
What are the differences between FTP and SFTP? What differences in congiuration can I expect? Are there any changes in command usage? I did see an earlier thread with command issues. A few... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following ftp code to check the status of communication channel :
/bin/ftp -i -v -n -B 64 $HOST <<END 2>&1 > $LOGFILE
user $user $password
bye
END
I need to re write to use SFTP, I know how to do SFTP with authentication keys.
But my problem is, when the authentication... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following ftp code to check the status of communication channel :
/bin/ftp -i -v -n -B 64 $HOST <<END 2>&1 > $LOGFILE
user $user $password
bye
END
I need to re write exactly the same way with SFTP using authentication keys, I know how to do SFTP with authentication keys.... (4 Replies)
Somebody made a policy that 'we use sftp now instead of ftp'. I have recommended we use scp because I can't for the life of me think of a *good* reason to use sftp and not scp. But most of what I do is stupid stuff without a good reason. I get judged on how much I can just say yes, no matter how... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have situation where i need to automate transferring 10000+ files using sftp.
while read line
do
if ; then
echo "-mput /home/student/Desktop/folder/$line/* /cygdrive/e/folder/$line/">>sftpCommand.txt
fi
done< files.txt
sftp -b sftpCommand.txt stu@192.168.2.1
The above... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have the following bash script(related to ftp) that read the parameters from the properties file and then transfer some files to the remote machine...
following is the bash script ....
#!/bin/sh
. ftp.properties
ftp -vin >> ftp.log <<-!
open $RemoteIp
user... (7 Replies)
Hi there, I'm new to shell scripting and need some help if possible?
I need to create a shell script (.sh) to run as a cron job on an ubuntu linux server to connect to an external sftp sites directory using credentials (which I have) and then download to our internal ftp server and then copy... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
We are migrating from FTP to SFTP. We used the following script for FTP:
echo "ftp -np -i -v << EOF" >> ${FTP_READY_FILE}
echo "open ${SRC_FTP_SERVER} " >> ${FTP_READY_FILE}
echo "user ${SRC_FTP_USER} ${SRC_FTP_PWD}" >> ${FTP_READY_FILE}
echo "binary" >> ${FTP_READY_FILE}... (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I need to make a Unix script, where i need ftp and sftp functionality.
Let me describe in details:
I need to import few files from remote server, now these remote server either support ftp or sftp not both. So i need a script where my script will try to do ftp first and if it... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: gnnsprapa
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
simpleftp
SIMPLEFTP(1) InterNetNews Documentation SIMPLEFTP(1)NAME
simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client
SYNOPSIS
simpleftp url [...]
DESCRIPTION
simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion. It takes one or more FTP
URLs on the command line. The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename
as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory.
The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows:
ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file
BUGS
simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities. It was written
only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package. Its shortcomings as a general
purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the
same name in the local directory.
HISTORY
Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews. Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.
$Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $
SEE ALSO actsync(8).
INN 2.5.2 2009-05-21 SIMPLEFTP(1)