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 ...

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 ...

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.