Re: Does OpenSSH use RCP?

tonij67@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:


>Thanks for the info.

>Why is SFTP a poor excuse of a protocol? The guys over at WinSSHD
>have the opposite opinion; that scp=bad, sftp=good.

>Is it all objective?

The main issue with the SFTP protocol is that it used read/write
commands which read/write parts of files and make it much
harder to use appropriate data streaming
(It's more like NFS over an SSH tunnel than FTP)

Casper
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