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Good SFTP Clients?

Posted by michael on from the my-lock-my-key dept.

Joel Parker Henderson writes "To improve security, my company is switching servers from Microsoft to RedHat, and from FTP to SFTP. The new RedHat has SFTP-- secure FTP with SSH and host fingerprints-- and I want to upgrade our people to use it. What are good SFTP clients? Priorities: an easy user interface, point-and-click renaming of remote files and folders, recursive directory transfers. Useful: drag-and-drop, resume broken transfers, synchronization of local and remote directories, written in Java, shareware or freeware. Thanks in advance for advice!"

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  1. Oh... SFTP. Not FSP.... HA! by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had a flashback to my college days (mid 1990's) where FSP was starting to see wide usage for distributing files. FSP was unofficially dubbed the "Free Software Protocol", which has absolutely nothing to do with Open Source and Free Software, but the delivery of commercial software.

    FSP was really appealing because no matter how many people connected to a server, 1 or 100, all the data was delivered by a single UNIX user process. This reduced the file server's profile below the radar of many sysadmins. (As compared to FTPd, which would launch a daemon for each connection and completely saturate a connection.)

    You could operate a FSP server right under the nose of your university without them even wandering what is going on.

    BTW: You are defining a good SFTP client as one with a GUI?