HSFTP(1) HSFTP(1)
28 March 2000
NAME
hsftp - ftp emulator for ssh1
SYNOPSIS
hsftp [-v][-l username][-p portnumber remote_host
hsftp [-h]
DESCRIPTION
hsftp is an ftp emulator that provides the look-and-feel of an ftp
session, but uses ssh to transport commands and data.
hsftp executes UNIX commands on the remote host, and thus will fail on
non-UNIX remote hosts. If needed, hsftp will ask for the password.
(The password is encrypted by ssh before transmission.)
Only a subset set of ftp commands is implemented: (m)put, (m)get,
dir/ls, ldir, cd, lcd, pwd, chmod, mkdir, del/rm, ?/help, quit/bye.
OPTIONS
-l username
The username on the remote host. Only required if not identical
to the username on the local host.
-p portnumber
The port on the remote host. Only required if not the default
port (22).
-v Be more verbose.
-h Print help.
CAVEATS
For speed, hsftp doesn't check whether a 'cd' on the remote host is
valid (i.e. whether the remote directory exists.)
get/put is always recursive. Already existing files are always
overwritten.
If not installed SUID root, the password, once typed in, may be paged
out to the swap partition when the program is left idle for some time.
BUGS
It has been reported that on FreeBSD, when downloading a file, it
says: Write failed flushing stdout buffer. However, the file transfer
is successful.
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HSFTP(1) HSFTP(1)
28 March 2000
With OpenSSH, you may get the following error message after uploading
files: Error reading from pipe: I/O error. However, the file transfer
is successful.
SEE ALSO
ssh(1)
AUTHOR
Rainer Wichmann <rwichmann@la-samhna.de>
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