SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

These steps walk you through the process of setting up an SFTP server on Linux for the secure transfer of files for specialized file transfer-only users. Any Linux server distribution is a very ...

Lock down all SFTP users on your data center Linux servers with a chroot jail. If you have Linux data center servers that require users to be able to send and receive files via SFTP, you might want to ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

I've moved to using SFTP rather than GUI equivalents over the years. One thing that still constantly escapes me is the lack of tab completion and command history in SFTP (they are both available in ...

For Linux, Mac, and Windows (PowerShell) an sftp session or scp command to an HPC front-end host can be done easily from on-campus (main or VIMS) or off-campus through the bastion host. In the ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

Running a public FTP site securely can be difficult. Taking full advantage of the security features supported by your FTP server application of choice can be a chore, and even then there's a good ...