<article lang="&language;" id="sftp">
<title
>sftp</title>

<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>