Bug 26650

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:39:46PM +0200, quinot@cuivre.fr.eu.org wrote:
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> >Number:         26650
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       sftp-client missing.
> >Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD geveor.cuivre.fr.eu.org 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4.3-RC #0: Tue Apr 3 18:49:15 CEST 2001 root@geveor.cuivre.fr.eu.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PORTAB i386
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> >Description:
> 	We currently install sftp-server from the OpenSSH distribution.
> 	It would be nice to have an sftp-client as well.
> >How-To-Repeat:
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> >Fix:
> 	* Import OpenSSH sftp-client source;
> 	* Have sftp-client built and installed.

There is an SFTP client in the ftp/sftp port; I believe the goal was to provide
a server (which has to interoperate somewhat closer with the SSH server),
and leave users to pick an SFTP client of their choice - like, say, the one
from the ssh.com's SSH distribution, if there is one there (haven't looked
at it in quite a while).

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible.

Le 2001-04-18, Peter Pentchev écrivait :

> There is an SFTP client in the ftp/sftp port; I believe the goal was to provide
> a server (which has to interoperate somewhat closer with the SSH server),
> and leave users to pick an SFTP client of their choice - like, say, the one
> from the ssh.com's SSH distribution, if there is one there (haven't looked
> at it in quite a while).

The ftp/sftp port is the first version of the sftp client and server.
This version has been deprecated by the (incompatible) sftp-server which
is part of the current OpenSSH distribution. The client from the port
cannot be used with the OpenSSH sftp-server; its documentation mentions
that version 1 is deprecated, and that the client and server from OpenSSH
should be used instead:

"sftp(0.9.6)

NEW: Now that openssh supports the ssh2 sftp protocol, there's probably no
reason to use this program anymore, unless you like it better. There probably
won't be any new versions, for the same reason. "

(http://www.xbill.org/sftp/)

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Comment 3 Kris Kennaway 2001-04-22 05:22:55 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The version of OpenSSH currently included in FreeBSD does 
not come with an sftp-client utility.  When a new version 
is imported sftp-client will come with it.