SFTP stands for [ssh] file transfer protocol. When encountering the
term '''sftp''', one may in fact see references to two different things:


   1. the ''secure file transfer program'' client, which is a command line program that comes with OpenSSH and which is an interactive interface similar to the normal [ftp] clients one may find on their platform.

   2. the true ssh file transfer ''protocol''. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol refers to this as being almost a remote file system protocol.  Full support of the protocol is more than just running ftp over SSH-2 or with an [SSL] layer.


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