Re: FTP Using SSH Tunnel

From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:59:15 GMT

On 2004-09-14, Buck Turgidson <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a linux server with vsftpd enabled via xinetd. I would like to
> access using FTP through an SSH tunnel using PuTTY.

Don't bother with ftp. PuTTY includes both an scp (pscp.exe) and an sftp
client (psftp.exe) you can use for file transfers via ssh. They work just
like the OpenSSH scp and sftp clients. 

-- 
-John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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