Re: Secure FTP basics

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it's sftp you want, then get 5733-sc1 installed. On V6R1 it's on the 
second B DVD.

This is the *nix OpenSSH stuff. RSTLICPGM options *BASE and 1.

The info is in the "Porting Central" at 
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/tools/openssh.html



rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've done lots of ftp but really haven't done "secure ftp".
> Not wanting to appear dumb to the customer I want to know if he means sftp 
> or ftp via SSL or whatever.
> We would be the client, they would be the server.
> The information they gave me was:
>
> Hello Rob, 
> Thanks for taking a look at this.   Here's the info - 
> IP Addr = ...
> User ID = ...
> Psw = ...
> Port = 10022 
>
> Didn't see anything enlightening in wiki.midrange.com or faq.midrange.com
> Googling was a wasteland.  Even selecting site:midrange.com didn't limit 
> it to that site.  Yahoo was much more respectful.
>
> infocenter got zero hits on sftp.  Seemed to be mainly geared towards SSL. 
>  (Which I am not even sure that is what I want.)
>
> How do I get started?
>
> Rob Berendt
>