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> SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) It's SSH File Transfer Protocol. When you say Secure File Transfer Protocol many people think about FTP over SSL if you
by qwerty456127 8y ago
> SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol)
It's SSH File Transfer Protocol. When you say Secure File Transfer Protocol many people think about FTP over SSL if you don't emphasize it's about SSH.
- floatboth 8y ago> many people think about FTP over SSL if you don't emphasize it's about SSH Huh? Sure there's always potential for confusion but every time I heard anything about FTP over SSL (which no one seems to actually use) it's been called "FTPS"
- qwerty456127 8y agoI agree FTPS is the right acronym for this but I had to correct people about this all the time. So many people actually have no idea SSH does more than just letting you execute command line programs on a remote server and FTP is not the only/best protocol to access remote file systems over the Internet.
- rob 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (also Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.
- Spivak 8y agoFTPS is FTP over TLS and is pretty much dead. Any time someone says SFTP it's SSH.
- Crontab 8y agoI've never even heard of FTP over SSL. Is that something that never became popular due to the existence of OpenSSH?
- mr_toad 8y agoMicrosoft used it and promoted it. I never understood why they took so long to support ssh.