hsftp is an ftp emulator that provides the look-and-feel of
an ftp session, but uses ssh to transport commands and data.
hsftp executes UNIX commands on the remote host, and thus
will fail on non-UNIX remote hosts.
If needed, hsftp will ask for the password.
(The password is encrypted by ssh before transmission.)
Only a subset set of ftp commands is implemented: (m)put, (m)get, dir/ls, ldir,
cd, lcd, pwd, chmod, mkdir, del/rm, ?/help, quit/bye.
OPTIONS
"-l username"
The username on the remote host. Only required if not identical
to the username on the local host.
"-p portnumber"
The port on the remote host. Only required if not the default port (22).
"-v"
Be more verbose.
"-h"
Print help.
CAVEATS
For speed, hsftp doesn't check whether a 'cd' on the remote host
is valid (i.e. whether the remote directory exists.)
get/put is always recursive. Already existing files are always overwritten.
If not installed SUID root, the password, once typed in,
may be
"paged out" to the swap partition when the program is left idle
for some time.
BUGS
It has been reported that on FreeBSD, when downloading a file, it says:
"Write failed flushing stdout buffer." However, the file transfer is successful.
With OpenSSH, you may get the following error message after uploading
files:
"Error reading from pipe: I/O error." However, the file transfer is successful.
