[NTLUG:Discuss] Passive sftp?

[terry]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> I've heard of passive ftp but this is new to me.  I searched the Web for
> 'passive sftp' and got 32 hits total, none of which explained anything.
>
> Is there such a thing?  If so, what are it's features and
> characteristics?  The comment came from a vendor in the context of
> "keeps sftp from prompting for a password" which I had associated with
> user keys.  Is the vendor confused or do they know something I don't?
>
> Thanks for any and all replies.
>



passive or pasv does not seem to be a valid command for sftp,  nor
does it say anything about passive or pasv in the manfile, (but I
don't have much experience with sftp so...)

FYI: Here is a good explain of passive vs active:
http://www.slacksite.com/other/ftp.html

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