sftpd in OS X Panther

5300cs

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Jul 12, 2004

• #1

I've tried searching the forums, but came up empty-handed.

I'm looking to setup sftpd under OS X... is this available? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the included ftpd is not secure, yes? (Unsecure as in Telnet vs SSH.)

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

abhishekit

macrumors 65816

• Jul 12, 2004

• #2

Well you can do sftp, its secure. Sorry, I don't know what is sftpd.

cheers

 

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saabmp3

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 13, 2004

• #3

abhishekit said:

Well you can do sftp, its secure. Sorry, I don't know what is sftpd.

cheers

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sftp (secure file transfer protocol) is like fugu, sftpd (secure file transfer protocol daemon) is the server for it.

On to the question, I don't think OSX includes a defualt install of a secure FTPD so your going ot have to find a third party program to provide it.

BEN

 

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fatpiper

macrumors newbie

• Feb 24, 2008

• #4

Yes, you can!

Mac OS X does indeed include sftp by default. Simply go to Sharing and enable the SSH server (also ensure that port 22 is not firewalled). This will allow connections over SFTP to the machine. Please be mindful of the security issues involved when doing this.