The SSH File Transfer Protocol, (sometimes called Secure File Transfer Protocol, Secure FTP), or SFTP, is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream.
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Issue with access via port 22 from some FTP clients
I am having an issue with connecting to an SFTP server.
On the same computer when I access SFTP via application A, I am given access, but when I use application B, I have no access.
In my server logs I can see that when I connect via application B I…

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Make hidden folders invisible sftp
My client needed sftp server for sharing files, so I created sftp server on a amazon ec2 ubuntu machine and added different users.
Now their need is when user login to sftp server either via winscp or some other client, they should be able to see…

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How do a sftp uri look alike?
I am new to SFTP,
For the ftp, the link will appear as
ftp://servername/folder/
We can see the list of files in that link.
To look on a specific file, the link will be mentioned as
ftp://servername/folder/test.txt
How do a SFTP uri look alike ?

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How to uninstall Pure-FTPd on centOS?
as mentioned in the title I want to remove Pure-FTPd from my centOS server. Can anyone tell me how to do this? What is the command line that remove pure-ftpd? I have centOS 6.5 64-bit. Appreciate it.

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hostname doesnt work in sftp whereas works in ftp
Why I cant access a sftp server using my hostname? I can access the ftp server using hostname, but not the sftp server.I have not done any extra mapping for ftp anywhere. But when I tried it with ip address it worked. Why?
And someone point on how…

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FTP ip reached by using SFTP command but not FTP
I've been given by a company their FTP IP where I should connect to. I got also username and password. That is supposed to work with port 21, right?
I tried to use FTP command-line but it didn't work; I tried my chance with sftp command-line and,…

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SSH stopped working for no reason
Please help. Everything was working fine. How can I connect to the command line now?
Configuration
Amazon EC2 server
Ubuntu & Apache2
Only one user (root - not real name) has SSH access, publickey only
All other users allowed SFTP access, chrooted…

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SFTP WIndows Client
Does anyone know of a good (free/open source) SFTP client for Windows.
Need to be able to:
sync a remote SFTP server with my local Windows folder to backup the remote to local.
to run this on a schedule and ideally as a Windows service.
Needs to…

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How to determine if OpenSSL and mod_ssl are installed on centos6?
I need to connect to a CentOS 6 server via SFTP. What are the requirements to make or accept SFTP connections?
I think I need to have OpenSSL installed, along with SSL certificates installed in both servers, but would like to know what else is…

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How do I change my sFTP account
My developer set up an Instance in Amazon EC2. It gave me access to the server that I can use PuTTY to connect to it, It's also the same details that i provide in my sFTP.
How do I change these login details? I need to change the login details for…

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File transfer sftp secure?
Suppose I have a text file with confidential information. I want to transfer from American facility to the france facility via sftp set up in a website.
Is the file transfer secure?

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SFTP - Unable to Overwrite File - "EOF received from remote side"
I am working with a customer to troubleshoot an error they have when trying to overwrite/"PUT" a file to our SFTP site. When the root directory is empty and they try to upload the file there is no problem but when they try to overwrite an existing…

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Error connecting to ftp: Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
I'm trying to connect to the server running vsftpd:
$ sudo systemctl status vsftpd
● vsftpd.service - vsftpd FTP server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vsftpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu…

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Adding SFTP to Windows Server 2012
I need SFTP functionality on my Windows 2012 VPS server.
According to this page, one of the prerequisites is that I'm running at least Windows Server 2019 or Windows 10 (build 1809).
My hosting company says they can migrate everything to Windows…

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vsftp work in terminal but not on filezilla and browser
I work under in a docker image, under a VPS!
i have install vsftp in my ubuntu 20.04! at the beginning I tested ftp 127.0.0.1 in the command line and everything goes well I created a user and I tested the file transfer.
after adding the ssl…

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