Please Recommend me FTP client that are Ncurses based.

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Is there any Ncurses FTP client that support SFTP and key auth?

thanks.

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Hi
What about midnight-commander (mc) or just scp and sftp from the CLI?

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On 2015-08-23 03:16, razirazo wrote:
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> Is there any Ncurses FTP client that support SFTP and key auth?

What’s wrong with ‘sftp’? :slight_smile:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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Tried mc but it keep giving vague error “unabe to chdir to xxxx”. Pretty sure I have input everything correctly.
Or maybe mc doesn’t support key authentication?

Im transferring lots of individual files and directories with annoyingly long and unique names between two remote server.

Having sort of gui to allow me to traverse through remote directory with minimum typing would be good.

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On 2015-08-23 13:36, razirazo wrote:

> Im transferring lots of individual files and directories with annoyingly
> long and unique names between two remote server.

Ah. Then you need something like mc, but part of the functionality was
removed due to a not solved bug :-/

I can’t find the reference in this laptop; I must have it on the desktop
machine. I’ll try to search for it later. Ping me if I forget.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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I haven’t tried it, can “tree” work on an FTP remote directory?
As for transferring files around on a remote server (not client <>server), that can be a problem with the classic command line FTP client. Don’t know if the enhanced FTP client addresses this fundamental FTP issue.

TSU

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On 2015-08-23 15:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> I can’t find the reference in this laptop; I must have it on the desktop
> machine. I’ll try to search for it later. Ping me if I forget.

Found it. Thread started 201412 on maillist

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-12/msg00500.html

And some extracts:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856501

JA> I take it back. SFTP-link does not appear to attempt publickey, it
always attempts
JA> to use password, and therefore requires the server to accept
passwordauthentication.

AB> https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3238

AB> From briefly looking at mc sources, it should support both agent and
key authentications, but apparently you need to configure key in mc, it
does not use
AB> default key(s) from ~/.ssh. It does not support
keyboard-interactive and that is really a bug.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)