Version: desconocido (using KDE 3.5.0, Debian Package 4:3.5.0-3 (testing/unstable)) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.14 Sometimes I access to a my friend computer to download or upload a film (700MB) so I use SFTP which allows "resume" instead of FISH (SSH -> SCP). If I use FISH and the conexion is interrumped I must restart it from the beggining. Because it , I need another option in KNetAttach to create a SFTP access icon. Is it possible?
I too would use this feature - checking if sftp works and falling back to fish if it's not available would also be a good idea, IMO.
Still nothing done on this bugreport. sftp is very widespread thanks to openssh enabling it by default, and is much more efficient than fish ... so why ?
This has been patched in Kubuntu. http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/kubuntu_03_knetattach_use_sftp.diff The question for upstream is if the UI needs to offer two ssh version (fish and sftp) or if sftp works well enough that it can just replace fish here.
There seems to be hostility to replacing fish with sftp (just based on IRC conversations). I'm not going to add a second ssh option to the UI since that would entirely fail the "something my girlfriend would use" test. So I'm not going to patch upstream. I'll keep the patch in Kubuntu though, I'd rather have the restart feature than keep backwards compatibility for a few old servers.
There seem to be a lot of people for whom sftp will work and fish will not. In addition to the examples in the commments on the Kubuntu bug, a common case is cheap web hosts that only allow restricted shell access that does not allos scripts to run - so users cannot run any scripts so fish cannot work (using things like rssh and scponly).
I just checked this using KDE SC 4.8 RC1. It allows me to choose sftp(the default) or fish. It should have been added recently by this commit : http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-runtime.git&a=commit&h=d1be1f9a65dd4fee66464a0bdf092b660f61f298 Should this report be closed now?