On 2008-05-03, Matthew Lincoln <kmlincoln100@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, normally I can perform some (unencrypted) ftp operations by simply typing
>
> ftp .....
>
> But what if I want to do the same over an TLS/SSH encrypted ftp connection?

You'd have to use an SSH tunnel, which gets fairly complicated (and requires
you to have root on the server).

> How do I tell ftp to encrypt/decrypt the stream?

You don't. ftp doesn't support SSL/TLS.
>
> Is there an option like "-ssh" which does the job?

Nope.

However, SSH itself supports sftp, which is not in fact related to ftp,
but sports a similar interface.

>
> Matthew


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