[CentOS] SFTP error (perhaps due not to using passive mode?)

Wed Aug 15 16:06:53 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> On 8/14/07, *John R Pierce* <pierce at hogranch.com 
> <mailto:pierce at 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).


'ftps' is kind of an orphan, I don't believe there's actually any sort 
of RFC or spec for it.   pretty much everything I've seen uses 
sftp/scp/ssh instead