How to use FTP through a SSH connection?

[Spencer Hanson]

Hello, I've been messing around with my ssh server at my house, and I'm wondering if there is any way to use ftp through my ssh client. I'd like to basically be able to connect to localhost:#port through filezilla (or commandline)

I saw this but it looks like I'm not either doing it correctly or it's not working. I do have a working ftp server running on my server, but I'd rather not portforward to make it public, since ssh seems like a valid option.


Does anyone have any ideas or tools I could look into?

Thanks,

Spencer

[John Black]

Why not just use scp which does file transfer over ssh?

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[Joshua Rahm]

You can also use sftp. It just uses ssh on the back end. I.e. openssh-server is implicitly an sftp server.

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[Spencer Hanson]

Haven't heard of scp! I'll check it out. Thanks for the quick reply!

[Spencer Hanson]

Works like a charm! Thanks again.

[Andy Sayler]

Normally, you could use SSH port forwarding to accomplish such tasks, but FTP does not port forward easily do to the fact that it dances across a range of ports for each connection. This is also why firewalling FTP is a PITA, and one of the many reasons FTP should have died many years ago.

But as others have said, don't use FTP at all - sftp is more secure, more advanced, and generally better all around.

And then check out the various sftp-based tools: rsync, sshfs, etc.

-Andy

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[John Black]

I use scp to copy files if that's all I'm doing.  sftp is great if you want the interactive experience of ftp (or if you want to create/delete directories, etc).

scp is generally faster than sftp for simple file copying.  Both tunnel over ssh, and therefore are as secure as ssh itself.

https://jhpce.jhu.edu/knowledge-base/file-transfer/

John

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[Andy Sayler]

I don't think I ever really realized that sftp and scp were different subsystems. I just assumed scp was built atop sftp. Learn something every day...

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