Re: sFTP question

Mike Cunningham wrote on 16/11/2006 04:55:05 PM:

I think Jerry is trying to do the same thing I wanted to do but could
not get it to work either. I needed to do an sFTP file transfer in
unattended mode in the middle of the night and the company who I was
sending data to used only sFTP but only with userid and passwords, not
public keys. I needed to send the userid and password to the remote
server just like I do FTP from the iSeries, using a script file. I ended
up getting WsFTP from Ipswitch which has an sFTP implementation that let
me define the userid and password in the a script. The PC it runs on has
a drive map to the IFS and at 2:00 am kicks off an SFTP logon to the
remote server, sends a userid and password, copys a file from the remote
server to the IFS and then copys a file from the IFS to the remote
server and disconnects.

This conversation has got me thinking - am I missing something, or is sFTP 
using userid/password no more secure than normal FTP?  Is there some 
method of passing the userid/password securely that hasn't been mentioned?

Just curious,
Adam 


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