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?

Best Answer

Launch Midnight Commander, type

cd ssh://user@hostname

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