What is proFTPD

ProFTPD is a free and open source FTP server. Its authors announce it as powerful and perfectly secure. ProFTPD is the most popular file transfer protocole in Unix-like environments today. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license. ProFTPD is also well documented, most configurations would be similar to the tutorials provided with the […]

SSH File Transfer Protocol (sftp)

SFTP  is a secure protocole used to perform file transfers between local and remote servers. Much more secure than FTP, this protocol uses an SSH tunnel to establish a connection and uses encryption to transfer files in an interactive session. In the context of Secure Shell (SSH), SFTP describes two things: a communication protocol operating […]

SFTP

SFTP to Securely Transfer Files with a Remote Linux Server

FTP, or “File Transfer Protocol” is a protocol of transferring files between two remote systems. Secure File Transfer Protocol is a variant of the FTP protocol that “tunnels” the session through a Secure Shell (SSH) connection to secure it. Because FTP uses multiple TCP connections (which is an exception in the list of TCP / IP […]