The SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) provides secure file transfer functions using the same infrastructure used by the Secure Shell protocol. It can be seen as a secure replacement for FTP.

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Difference in file listing for SSH and SFTP [closed]

I have SSH access to a server and I have never bothered to use SFTP until now. I transferred a file using FileZilla to the server. However, the weird thing is that the file doesn't show up when I ...
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User logged in by sftp does not show up in `w`

My server is Centos 5. I have a chroot environment set up with the following in my sshd_config Match group sftponly ForceCommand internal-sftp ChrootDirectory %h AllowTcpForwarding no ...
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What's difference between FISH and SFTP? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What's the difference between SFTP, SCP and FISH protocols? I use SSH for remote file systems access. And I use Krusader file manager. Krusader offers a choice of ...
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Chrooted SFTP with full access to SSH stopped working (Debian)

I've got a home server on Debian 6 for backups. I'd like to setup chrooted SFTP environment with SSH access for some users (only for my knowledge, there are two users now). It almost works or rather ...
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Puzzle: transfering files between two servers (ssh, ftp, http multipart…)

A puzzle: files being uploaded in realtime by SCP to SERVER1 need to be transfered to SERVER2. But: SERVER1 doesn't actually have network access to SERVER2 (NAT), however SERVER2 has SSH access to ...
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What is SSH - the protocol and what is ssh - the utility?

What is SSH - the protocol? What is ssh - the unix utility and how does it work? How is SSH protocol related to SFTP? What is sshd? Does the command su use ssh or sshd?
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Set visible directories for SFTP access?

I am setting up SFTP access to one of my machines running Linux with the Dropbear SSH server. When I SFTP onto the machine remotely, I can see the entire filesystem on it, even if I might not have ...

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