On 8/14/07, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com > wrote:

passive vs active or port mode is strictly a old school FTP thing, it
has nothing to do with sftp which is part of the ssh protocol.

are you running a ssh server on port 990? it normally runs on port 22.

My problem actually turns out to be I need to use FTPS instead of SFTP (hence the ssh errors).

Unfortunately, I don't have root access to the box where I need this, so I'm not quite sure how I'll get that tool, unless I "make install" it or grab a binary somewhere (I can't seem to find source code for FTPS while googling).

I hear that LFTP also would do what I need to do with FTP over SSL (implicit encryption).