A Secure File Transfer Protocol session is similar to a File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, session, but with the added security of encryption. When you use SFTP to make a connection to a server that ...

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Apple decided to remove the GUI for enabling and disabling FTP from Mac OS X Lion. Generally speaking, that's not a bad move, because most times SFTP is available anywhere FTP is, and SFTP is far ...

Setting up users with very limited access to systems — nothing more than they need, used to be a little tricky. You could create a specialized environment, chain the visitor to his home directory and ...

For Linux, Mac, and Windows (PowerShell) an sftp session or scp command to an HPC front-end host can be done easily from on-campus (main or VIMS) or off-campus through the bastion host. In the ...

One of the things I both love and hate about my job is getting assigned new projects. They can be about anything and everything. A few months back I was given an assignment to create some chroot jails ...

So I got a Synology Disk Station (model DS110j) since my wife wanted a server. I figured that the NAS was a good way to go, and Synology is well reviewed. One of the features of the diskstation is ...