SFTP Client Information

As part of the change to a more secure environment, the Department of Computer Science highly recommends using  Secure File Transport Protocol or SFTP instead of FTP.  SFTP is an extension of the SSH protocol suite and functions exactly like a regular ftp client with the major difference being that all communication is encrypted.

For a list of basic SFTP commands click here.

The Department of Computer Science recommends the use of the SSH Secure Shell client for SFTP.   SSH Secure Shell includes support for SSH1/SSH2 as well as SFTP and SFTP2.  This client is free for educational usage and versions for Unix/Windows may be downloaded from the following sites:

http://ils.unc.edu/downloads/

(Internal Link for Windows Machines only) \\compsvc-cs\public\sftp\sshwinclient-310.exe

 

Macintosh OS 10.1.3 and higher includes command line support for SFTP through the Terminal window, but you should also take a look at fugu, a nice GUI SFTP client. 

 

Please email the Computer Services Technical Support Center at:  help@cs.unc.edu with any questions.

Last modified on 11/3/08

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