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SSH not FTP
Authored by: SeanAhern on Feb 09, '04 03:00:38PM

I'm sure most of you already know this, but I though I'd mention it so this is clear.

sftp uses ssh to transfer files, not ftp. sftp does not contact a remote ftp server. The interface it presents looks a lot like ftp, but the underlying work is being done by an ssh daemon.

Just so you know that you're not FTP'ing files around. And that you can't use sftp to download files from your favorite anonymous ftp site.



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