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Re: Additional comments ondraft-ietf-radext-management-authorization-03.txt
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:45:48AM -0400, David B. Nelson wrote:
> So, that leads me to ask what's the difference between SCP and SFTP?
SFTP is really pretty much like FTP in the sense that it provides a
protocol allowing you to send commands from a rather rich set of
primitives to an SFTP server that are then executed by the server. Scp
is much simpler and usually does just one thing, namely transferring
files.
With SFTP, you can implement a filesystem that allows to mount an SFTP
server. This won't really work with scp since you lack primitives to
read directories, to create, modify or delete directories, to handle
symbolic links, to play with file attributes and so on.
/js
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