On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > from what I've read in ssh docs/faq it is not possible because ftp > uses two connections... (control and data).
Just use passive mode. This will easily secure the control connection (port 21) which carries passwords and other stuff (such as filenames). Securing the data connection requires help from the ftp program AND passive mode as well, I think. Check out lftp, it may screw up when talking to WarFTPD (which ncftp knows how to talk to just fine), but it sure is one hell of a ftp program and AFAIK supports ssh tunnels natively. It might very well know how it should secure a passive-mode data connection. > > My understanding is that this method requires passive transfer, which I > > am using. I also tried without passive and got just the "list failed" > > part of the error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Hmm... I usually do "ssh -l login -L2121:ftphost:21 remotehost", leave that shell open, ftp localhost:2121, passive, start transfer, logout from ssh shell (if I don't care that the ssh tunnel will collapse shound the data connection die for some reason). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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