according to this link - http://en.jakilinux.org/apps/ssh-tricks/
- total commander has a plugin to allow SCP, but I don't see such an addon on the downloads pages.
In the MS Windows environment, we have a great app called WinSCP. The interface of this program looks very much like Total Commander. By the way, there is a plug-in allowing for SCP connections from TC as well.
SFTP plugin(author site) Access remote servers via secure FTP (FTP via SSH). Requires SSH2. This is NOT the same as SCP! The plugin is based on Putty source code and is therefore open source. Because of the Swiss crypto export laws, the plugin is only available from the Author's site.
SCP and SFTP aren't the same thing as far as I'm aware... SFTP sounds like it would require a ftpd which handles ssh on the remote host whereas SCP requires a regular sshd.
SFTP, is -simply- an ssh connection between 2 hosts where you receive the file list (of the 2nd) without sending a ls command ... Downloading a file is as simple as F5, enter
SCP is a single command that opens an ssh connection, change to the wanted directory, ask to download the file (as it would trought sftp) then closes the connection
So sftp does not requires an ftps server but a single sshd daemon that supports sftp...
Indeed SCP is the only secure transfer method for which there isn't any plugin. SFTP is similar to SCP, and most servers which support SCP could also support SFTP. They just need to be configured accordingly.
To plugin writers: It shoudn't be too difficult to make the SFTP plugin support SCP too. It's based on PUTTY source code, which does support both SCP and SFTP. Unfortunately I cannot write it myself because I wouldn't be allowed to distribute it then...
I'd like to see the ability to have addons to FTP like with other plug ins. That way the community could write one themselves that uses the FTP interface!
The easiest way would probably to write some local FTP proxy which would take ftp commands and convert them into SCP, something like the stunnel tool, but for SSH, not SSL.
I don't know if this may be usefull, but WinSCP have a plugin for FAR File manager. It is a dll. Maybe it wil be usefull for TC? Also the source code is available here.
I can't do it myself, for legal reasons, but I would be willing to finance a plugin. Any freelance developer who would like to convert this into a TC plugin?
