How to use SSH under gFTP
Linux comes with a graphical FTP program called 'gFTP', that looks
like Explorer in Windows. One of it's features is secure file
transfers by using SSH instead of the FTP protocol.
The only difficulty with the setup is that conway now exclusively
uses the SSH2 protocol.
To setup gFTP to allow you to do SSH file transfers to conway:
1. Install and run gFTP (Debian - use dselect or apt-get; RedHat -
should already be installed).
2. Find the full path to your sftp subsystem. Do this by looking
for the string 'Subsystem' in the sshd_config file, located somewhere
under /etc. On my RedHat system, the file is /etc/ssh/sshd_config,
and sftp subsystem is located at /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
3. From the menus, select FTP, Options, SSH. Enter the path to the
sftp subsystem in the last box (called SSH2 sftp-server path). Also
select the checkbox 'Use SSH2 SFTP subsys'. Click 'Apply' and 'OK'.
4. Connect to conway by entering (at the top of the screen)
'conway.cat.org.au' as the host, '22' as the port, and your username.
Then select SSH2 from the drop down box at the end. Click on the
green computer, top left, to connect.
5. From the menus, select Bookmarks, Add Bookmark, so you don't have
to type in this information next time.
Happy SFTP'ing!
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James made this comment about gFTP on Debian on catgeek 24jan03:
There is a bug in gFTP. Try another one if you can. The way we fixed
it was to install ssh-askpass and then latest unstable. Then go to the
settings and in the SSH tab, check all three checkboxes - 'Use askpass',
and whatever the other two are. The problem was that it wasn't giving
you the option to say yes to the new certificate.
Give that a go - we did it five times at Turella and only one didn't
ever work.
Savanna.
savanna (at) cat.org.au
