Anyone using hawkhost, SFTP question?
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April 26, 2024
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Originally Posted by
David9723
Trying to use SFTP but it seems in order to use it i have to use my master username and pass which gives access to everything.
I have FTP accounts created with a user and pass but when using SFTP it will not work. It only works on FTP.
Is that normal or am i doing something wrong? or should i just use ssh.
Uses cpanel 110.0.31
For what it’s worth sFTP is FTP over SSH. FTPS is standard FTP with SSL/TLS.
Both are encrypted / secure.
If you want to create an FTP account for someone else – you would want to tell them to use FTPS which functions over the standard FTP port of 21.
There is a misconception that you have to use sFTP to be secure / to have an encrypted connection and this is not the case. That…
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