Using konqueror for secure file transfer

Secure alternative to ftp

[Duckula]

Time ago one poster asked about an easy way to perform scp file transfers, and hsftp was proposed.

I was using that, until last week I noticed that installing kio-fish for konqueror permits using it for secure copy.

Once installed, try on the konqueror address bar something like

fish://yourserver.com

Only works if your server allows ssh access.

[littleman]

Duckula, I am going to have to try that! I was using Secpannel, which isn't bad but Secpanel requires tcl shell on the server end.

[Josk]

How about sftp? Or am I missing something obvious? Whats hard about scp?

[littleman]

Nothing hard about scp when you just have to transfer one file, but when you use it as a substitute for ftp and move around a lot of files it is sort of nice to have a point and click gui.

[dingman]

I've found that the -r option to scp takes care of that for me almost all the time. Combined with wildcards, it pretty much handles the whole task.

However, I do see why someone would want a graphical sftp client anyway. It took me quite a while to get used to the idea of managing files from the command line, and there's no real reason why everyone should have to do that. Besides, graphical clients do save you having to remember and type correctly every character of the entire path on the server side. command line completion is great, but it doesn't work so well for remote directory structures that aren't mounted over the network.