Does FTP have Auth SSL option?

[kristo5747]

I am working with a supplier who's just tightened their security. They moved from an anonymous FTP setup to a more secure alternative. The parameters they gave me

Host: blahblah.net
Port: 4421
Path: /mailbox
User: (...)
Password: (...)
Auth SSL: yes
Passive mode: yes

Using

ftp -pn blahblah.net 4421

allows me to connect but it hangs. I need to specify the "Auth SSL" option in my command line (and script) but how do I do that?

I read the ftp man page of my host and found nothing. I looked at using sftp instead but it seems that the latter does not use passive mode.

My host info: Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

[feherke]

Hi

Just a one time experience with this, so I may be wrong. But give it a try :

sftp -oPort=4421 blahblah.net

( According to the man page the port can be specified as [tt]-P[/tt] 4421, but that not worked for me. )

Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/]

http://feherke.github.com/

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[stefanhei]

sftp (SSH File Transfer Protocol) is not ftps (FTP over SSL). The FTP-client lftp can handle Auth SSL if it was compiled with that option.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Thank you, stefanhei.

Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/]

http://feherke.github.com/

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[stanhubble]

if you know the path and filename that you want to retrieve, curl is a good option to script a ftps session

 

[tphethai]

sample windows command

sftp test.abacd.com
ls (Get a list of the files in the current remote directory.)
get sample.txt (Copy the file sample.txt from the remote directory.)
get folder/sample.txt (Also copy the file sample.txt, which is in a subdirectory on the remote machine.)
lcd .. (Move up one level in the local directory.)
lls (Get a directory of the current local directory.)
put newsample.txt currentsample.txt (Copy the local file newsample.txt to the remote directory, but rename the copy currentsample.txt.)
quit