[Tutor] Assigning a variable to an FTP directory listing

Walter Prins wprins at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 15:34:00 CET 2013


Hi,


On 12 December 2013 01:03, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:

> By the way, I would recommend not doing this with FTP.  If I remember
> rightly, it passes passwords in plain text, which is not so good.
> Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Security.
>  You might just want to use something like 'ssh ls' to run ls on the
> remote system.
>
>
Possibly also apropos: http://code.google.com/p/pysftp/

Walter
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