Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IMHO it would be better to put some effort into making a rsync based
> subsystem instead of using the old FTP protocol. The user interface
> can of course be the same.
sftp doesn't have much to do with the good old ftp protocol. I'm
talking about the sftp program and protocol that comes with
Datafellow's ssh2. I haven't looked closer at it as I don't use ssh2.
(Perhaps there's some ftp over SSL that is also called sftp? That's a
little more tricky, as you would want to share one SSL "session" for
several simultaneous connections).
But I do think that using a special ssh "subsystem" for ftp is a
better approach than to wrap it around the ssh-connection subsystem.
For one thing, it would make it easier to delegate restricted access
to some files.
I don't have much experience with rsync, but is there any reason you
can't just replace the rsh program it uses? I use cvs over ssh for
most syncronization of my files between sites.
/Niels
