Re: [cobalt-users] SSH totally hoses FTP Access?

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:24 PM 2/1/2003, you wrote:
> OK, like a good boy I took all your advice and installed SSH on my RaQ4i. I
> guess that it also installs a program called SFTP that makes it impossible
> to login with a normal (ie: GUI from windows), FTP program.
>
> I have been through the archives, and someone named Thomas mentioned that
> they have gotten this to work with CuteFTP Pro. I downloaded the trial
> version, and it says that it will work, but I can't get it to happen. I
> would love to get some stack-brain-mode instructions on that.
>
> If I can't login to FTP, and let my other users do the same easily, this SSH
> is a bit overkill. Sure it's great security, but the fix is worse than the
> problem? (There's no _way_ that I'm going to fool with file transfer through
> a command line interface.)
>
> Thanks,


Don't know where you got ssh, but I use ftp with it just fine.  I got my 
ssh from pkgmaster.com.
I use wsftp for ftp and with ssh I use both putty and winscp.

Did you turn ftp off when you installed ssh?
to use ssh, you need to turn on shell access for the sites/users needing it.



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