HSFTP(1)

NAME
hsftp - ftp emulator for ssh1

SYNOPSIS
hsftp [-v][-l username][-p portnumber] remote_host
hsftp [-h]

DESCRIPTION
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 with 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.

SEE ALSO
ssh(1)

AUTHOR
Rainer Wichmann <rwichmann@la-samhna.de>