OT: SCO 6 ftps (ftp/ssl)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:49:03PM -0500, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:36:44PM -0500):
> | On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:34:12PM -0500, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | > Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:28:58AM -0500):
> | > | 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.
> | > 
> | > OSR 6.0.0 DevSys retails for $99.00.
> | 
> | I infer that OS6 authoritatively does *not* include ftpd/ssl, then, or
> | you'd have said?
> 
> Right.  It of course has sftp.
> 
> BTW: what makes ftps more desirable than sftp?

As I've noted (several times :-) before in this thread, what makes it
more desirable is the fact that it's the only thing my client's vendor
talks to.  It is, otherwise, less desirable than several things.

Cheers,
-- jra
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