I'd strongly recommend against using ftp in 2015. sftp [1] should do everything that ftp did in with a good level of security (encryption, server authentication

I'd strongly recommend against using ftp in 2015. sftp [1] should do everything that ftp did in with a good level of security (encryption, server authentication and key based user auth). It uses ssh as transport protocol which means that if you have an ssh server set up, you don't need anything else. To answer your question, lftp [2] on the command line, cyberduck [3] on osx. Both of these tools are capable of connecting to sftp servers, too. Also, sshfs (+ osxfuse for osx) [4] is definitely worth a try. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-13 [2] http://lftp.yar.ru/ http://lftp.yar.ru/ [3] https://cyberduck.io/ https://cyberduck.io/ [4] https://osxfuse.github.io/ https://osxfuse.github.io/