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From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
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Subject: Re: Switching username using SFTP
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Hi there,

You can simply enter a command such as:

$ sftp username@hostname.domain.com

Cheers,
Marc

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, takhoos@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the
> system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l  host.domain.com.   
> 
> How does one do this with SFTP on the command line?  The -l switch
> doesn't work.  The man pages on SFTP makes no mention of this.