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That's not better.

• nix23 6y ago
  I see your totally not into "let's read the article first" thing.
  • adrian_b 6y ago
    No, "sildur" was correct that the "sftp" protocol is not better than the "scp" protocol. Another poster described in detail the problems with the "scp" and "sftp" protocols. They have different advantages and disadvantages and neither of them can be considered a good file copy protocol.
    • nix23 6y ago
      >It has proven very difficult to add "security" to the scp model. >>Compared to the SCP protocol, which only allows file transfers, the SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files which make it more like a remote file system protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol If you want the best "JUST File-transfer prog" use nc or rsync over ssh