SSH / TLS support for midnight commander?

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Does anyone know if Midnight Commander could support FTP over TLS / SSH?

One of our clients use Midnight Commander and we since we recently switch to explicit FTP over TLS (for security reasons) she can't connect to the server anymore.

Does anyone know if there's a way to configure Midnight Commander to use FTP over TLS, or SSH?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 09:59

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Launch Midnight Commander, type

cd ssh://user@hostname

answered Nov 29 '11 at 09:59

cvaldemar

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It is "sh" not "ssh", at least on debian 7. – Pjl Nov 12 '15 at 17:39

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '14 at 11:39

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FTPS is currently unsupported.

I've created an issue for this: https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3343

answered Nov 21 '14 at 11:39

Ikar Pohorský

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 08:20

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Have you tried FUSE and sshfs or curlftpfs?

answered Nov 29 '11 at 08:20

ptman

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 04 '21 at 21:49

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mc supports "Shell links" in the respective "side menu". This uses ssh to establish a fish connection (FIle transfer over SHell filesystem).

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answered Nov 29 '11 at 08:44

glglgl

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I believe that shell links are based on SFTP, not on FTPS. – Sorin Postelnicu Sep 11 '16 at 01:23

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 05 '17 at 08:20

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select the left or right menu... SFTP link...

answered Feb 05 '17 at 08:20

Colin Tree

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SSH / TLS support for midnight commander?

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