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secure FTP client for Mac?
Dear Brain Trust,
I have a Mac (Snow Leopard) and a Unix shell account out there on the net, and occasionally I want to move files between them. I can run sftp from the command line, but when dealing with larger directory structures I'd sometimes like something a little more, err, visual. (I know; some of you are calling for me to turn in my geek card now.) But it has to support a secure mode, not plain old FTP. (Quite aside from my own sensibilities on the matter, my shell provider now requires it.)
I was using CyberDuck for a while but it stopped working (it just crashes on start now), and then I switched to FileZilla. FileZilla has a nicer UI so that's a win, but I'm at a loss for how to make it use sftp instead of ftp -- it wants a keystore file, and I don't know where I have one of those, though I presume I must have one somewhere because I use ssh to connect to this shell account. FileZilla helpfully tells me that it can use ssh directly instead if I just set SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly. That sounds like it wants a socket, but, um, what?
So, dear Mac-admin-aware portion of my brain trust, how should I proceed?
I have a Mac (Snow Leopard) and a Unix shell account out there on the net, and occasionally I want to move files between them. I can run sftp from the command line, but when dealing with larger directory structures I'd sometimes like something a little more, err, visual. (I know; some of you are calling for me to turn in my geek card now.) But it has to support a secure mode, not plain old FTP. (Quite aside from my own sensibilities on the matter, my shell provider now requires it.)
I was using CyberDuck for a while but it stopped working (it just crashes on start now), and then I switched to FileZilla. FileZilla has a nicer UI so that's a win, but I'm at a loss for how to make it use sftp instead of ftp -- it wants a keystore file, and I don't know where I have one of those, though I presume I must have one somewhere because I use ssh to connect to this shell account. FileZilla helpfully tells me that it can use ssh directly instead if I just set SSH_AUTH_SOCK correctly. That sounds like it wants a socket, but, um, what?
So, dear Mac-admin-aware portion of my brain trust, how should I proceed?
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In any event, the standard GUI mac app for FTP is Fetch, which claims to support both FTP and SFTP. Haven't used it since before Unix on the Mac.
ETA: I don't know if you know this, but in case you don't and it comes up SFTP != FTPS. I don't think SFTP uses SSL, but FTPS does. I think.
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I do know the difference between ssh and ssl -- but didn't know that sftp != ftps. Thanks for that, and for the pointer to Fetch.