On Thursday 13 July 2006 01:31 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 22:58 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > What I meant is "secure" ftp. > > > sort of like httpS as an alternative to http. > > > > > > short of wrapping/tunneling ftp traffic through SSH. (That's simple) > > > > It's called sftp, and openssh does it with this in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: > > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I know about that as well. > Most other users are Windows users and they then to just like to click a > link eg: > > ftp://1.2.3.4 > > and it'll open up in explorer. (users, they don't care, as long as it > works) > > > # override default of no subsystems > > Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server > > > > Most SSH clients will do it, FTP clients may not. > > And I sincerely doubt windows explorer can do it. (Which is the problem)
Assuming you mean Microsoft Internet Explorer, you should check into a microsoft windows mailing list if this has nothing to Gentoo or even Linux at all. There are nice sftp/scp apps for windows - winscp works great. -- [email protected] mailing list
