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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…

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…