• dynek
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Topic: Difference between SFTP and SCP

Hi,

Beat me if it's a stupid question (stupid questions exist ?!)

What's the difference between SFTP and SCP.

Thank you

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

sftp is ftp with ssl.
scp copies a file using ssh.

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

I use sftp using ssh protocol, and actually I don't even see an ssl sftp connection option in my client.

(filezilla sftp using ssh2)

sftp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol

scp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

Right, you mean that sftp ... I got confused between ftps and sftp, sorry.

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

oh yeah ftps!

forgot about that one smile

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  • arun
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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

SFTP has an interactive mode and SCP (AFAIK) does not. Also you can disable SFTP. I don't know about any other differences.

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  • dynek
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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

Well. Thanks guys.

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

Also, scp was implemented as a secure alternative to rcp.

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ … /1173.html

don't know how credible that is, but it answers your question smile.

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Re: Difference between SFTP and SCP

this is relevent to your interests: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=245935