Re:Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)
by LinAGKar on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:34AM
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SSH is just the transport, you use a different protocol inside it. But yeah, it's not FTP
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Re:Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)
by ganoushoreilly on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:46AM
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The only difference is the security transport / authentication, otherwise if functions the exact same way.
The original RFC for SFTP was written to actually be a simpler version of FTP. While v3 seems to be the standard and the final RFC was never ratified, SFTP is still FTP.
Re:Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)
by LinAGKar on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:15PM
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Please link to that RFC then.
They are very different. SFTP isn't even textual, nor does it have separate control and data channels of FTP.
Are these exactly the same?:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc959.txt
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-moonesamy-secsh-...
Re:Why FTP could soon disappear from the Internet (2020)
by nwallin on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:10PM
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Are you perhaps referring to FTPS, which is FTP with SSL/TLS added? SFTP is very, very different from FTP.
Note that SFTP is not a protocol for security transport / authentication. It doesn't do that. It assumes that you've already secured/authorized the channel with SSH. See section 1 of the RFC.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filex...