OT: SCO 6 ftps (ftp/ssl)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>Anyone know if I can get this with or without having to compile code?
>
>Got a client for whose vendor sftp isn't good enough, they need ftp
>over ssl, and I can't find it -- we'd seen something on a web page at
>SCO that suggested Openserver 6 came with it, but no.
>
>Binaries would be better -- it's the only OS6 machine I touch, and I
>don't know if it has compilers installed.

I think that's what stunnel is for -- providing ssl connectivity
for services that don't support it natively.

On the other hand, ftp tends to cause problems because of the way
it handles ports.

Perhaps rsync might be a better choice for file transfers.

Bill
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