[ale] Secure FTP?

[Joseph A. Knapka]

djinn at djinnspace.com wrote:
> 
> Background: we have a handful of clients who require FTP access to their
> web sites hosted on our machine.   Up till now, I've used MuddleFTP for
> these people, which does a fantastic job of locking them in their home
> directories, and set their shell to /dev/null so that all they can do is
> ftp in.
> It's been working OK, and I love Muddle and think it does a superior job
> as an FTP daemon.  However, I'm  trying to do the Right Thing and
> eliminate FTP from my machine altogether and only do file transfer thru
> openSSH.   I know that there are a tiny handful of clients for Mac (non
> osX) and I can find several decent looking ones for windows, so that's
> one part of the battle won.
> 
> My quandry is, my boss uses Edit+ and I've contacted the company to see
> if they support direct edit via SFTP, but I doubt they do.  Does anyone
> know of any windows and/or mac editors that basically function like
> Emacs??   If anyone has any advice either about my migration to SFTP or
> the editor question, it's much appreciated.

I am clue-free re. the Mac issue, but Gnu Emacs runs on Windows. Have
a look at <URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html>

Is Edit+ an Emacs work-alike? I only ask because in my experience
Emacs is a hard sell if someone is already used to another editor.

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