<article lang="&language;" id="sftp">
<title
>sftp</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>
<para
><acronym
>SFTP</acronym
> is a Secure file transfer protocol. <command
>sftp</command
> is an interactive file transfer program, similar to ftp, but it performs all operations over an encrypted <command
>ssh</command
> transport. It may use many of the features of <command
>ssh</command
>, including public key authentication and compression.</para>

<para
>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/sftp"
>sftp</ulink
>. </para>

</article>