Re: [PLUG] large file transfer

[Matthew Rosewarne <mukidohime@case.edu>]

On Friday 26 January 2007 20:33, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
> First problem: sftp connections are being handled by sshd instead of
> vsftpd, so it isn't using vsftpd's chroot feature.
vsftpd doesn't handle SFTP, which is an SSH-specific protocol designed to 
replace SCP.  Instead it uses FTP with SSL like a webserver might use HTTP 
with SSL, which is called FTPS (like HTTPS) and is not compatible with SFTP.  
The wikipedia can probably explain it better than I can:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol

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