Topic: file transfer using SSH

[Gordon]

Can I use SSH remotely for file transfer rather than FTP?  I have been reluctant to open my FTP port on the firewall because of lack of password encryption.

[Mehdi]

Hi,

You should read the scp manpage. Scp is a special version of cp using ssh.
The best explanation is an example, so imagine you are on a machine called "client" and you want to download a file named "file" in your home directory in the distant machine called "server" :

$>scp your_login@server:file .

and if you want to put  a file to the server :

$>scp file your_login@server:

There are other parameters, see in the manpage, good luck

[Tibor]

If your client machine is a Windows box use WinSCP http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
If you need login users other than root use the e-smith-usershellaccess at http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/usershell.html

[Sean Reynaud]

You may also try rsync.

rsync -e ssh -av path_to_src_file username@sme:path_to_dest_file

Rsync will only copy over files that have changed since the previous rsync...

/sean

[Gordon]

WinSCP is excellent.  Thanks for the tip!