On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:13:30 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Bill Campbell<centos at celestial.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >>I installed gFTP but apparently it does not handle the sFTP protocol. >> >>I also installed the FireFTP Add On for the Firefox browser, but when >> >>I tried to connect to the server, it says that I need putty-tools. I >> >>have the rpmforge and epel repositories configured but yum did not >> >>find putty-tools. Is there an RPM for a client program for gFTP or >> >>putty-tools? If so, in which repository? TIA! >> > >> > The sftp program is a standard part of the openssh package. >> >> Bill: Apparently openssh-4.3p2-29.el5.i386 is already installed. How >> do I launch it or sFTP so I can upload files from my desktop to the >> server? TIA! Lanny <snip. > > sftp is a *CLI* program. To use it, you first need to start a terminal > shell program. > That is the easy part... > > sftp username at hostname: > > Then you can type help to get a list of commands you can type from > there. > > If you want a point-and-click interface, I don't know of one. I myself > actually use scp or ssh (with tar or rsync etc.) also from the command > line or with scripts. OK. I need to read up on sftp...