On 2014-12-10 05:12, John M Andersen wrote:
SFTP is in fact ssh:
No. The wikipedia is dead, so I can not show you the links, but there are two different aceptions for that word. One is ssh, the other is an ftp variant. The one on mc is the later meaning, also called ftps on some places. And it simply does not work. The man page says: +++—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- Currently the Midnight Commander is packaged with some Virtual File Systems (VFS): the local file system, used for accessing the regular Unix file system; the ftpfs, used to manipulate files on remote systems with the FTP protocol; the tarfs, used to manipulate tar and compressed tar files; the undelfs, used to recover deleted files on ext2 file systems (the default file system for Linux systems), fish (for manipulating files over shell connections such as rsh and ssh). If the code was compiled with sftpfs (for manipulating files over *SFTP* connections). If the code was compiled with smbfs support, you can manipulate files on remote systems with the SMB (CIFS) protocol. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-++- See? sftpfs = SFTP.
Since sftp is file transfer over ssh, if you have sshd running, you already have sftp support.
It is not. Of course I have the sshd daemon running. I can connect from any machine but this sftp in 13.2, which is NOT ssh (nor fish). It is the same word, but not the same thing. It means probably that the packager disabled ssh. :-( -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)