Another interesting distinction between SFTP and FTP with SSL is that
the SFTP (SSH) solution does not require a password to authenticate.
Instead, a one time key generation is performed between systems and
there is no need to worry about a password or changing a password for
security reasons.
I consider that one advantage that SFTP(SSH) has over the native FTP.
We use both solutions and both work well.
Glenn
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: What is the different between SFTP ad FTP over SSL
SFTP = Not really FTP, but an FTP-like user interface over the SSH
protocol. IBM does not provide native support, but does provide the
OpenSSH package in PASE, which works well.
FTP over SSL: The standard FTP protocol with SSL encryption added.
This is notoriously difficult to get working through NAT, and even
sometimes hard through a straight firewall. But has native support in
IBM i.
This has been discussed quite a few times on Midrange-L. Searching the
archives should give you a lot of information.
Lim Hock-Chai wrote:
I found this article and still could quite understand the different
between SFTP and FTP over SSL. Can some enlight me? Thank
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