I do not own a web server and take up a hosting package to host my site.

I have been using ftp over the past year and there is no problem. Recently, i was told to put my files in a secure ftp for a customer of mine so that they can access the information securely over the server where i place my files.

I have no idea how to set a secure ftp for him. Can somebody points a direction to me.

Thanks.

Greetings:

See http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml

Thank you.

Thanks for the prompty reply.

As i do not own the server, i was wondering how sld i install the rssh.

Greetings:

Ask the provider.

Thank you.

Many servers support sftp already. Just tell your client to use sftp instead of ftp. I tested it on a fresh cPanel server and works just fine with the default configuration.

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, my provider do not provide SSH access by default, hence there is no way my client can use sftp. I have asked to grant me access, yet no reply!!!

I am thinking of getting another cheap hosting package elsewhere just to do sftp. I need to put some files in where it can be accessed by one of my customer. My customer demands that it is their security requirement to use sftp to access those files.

Can anybody recommends me a cheap hosting package that allow SSH access which allow the my customer using sftp to access some files?

Thanks in advance.

sftp can be done over normal ftp. You have to enable secure ftp within the client. By default it works with cPanel.

How to enable secure ftp within the client?

I got this error msg when i used a ftp program like Aceftp

X SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1
Unable to connect

When i used a sftp program like WinSCP, i got this error msg

Cannot initialize sftp protocol. Is host running a sftp server?

Received too large (1399350636 B) SFTP packet. Max supported packet size is 102400 B.

The error is typically caused by message printed from startup script (like .profile). The message may start with "Shel".

client wanted to access it securely... thus https:// the files should be uploaded (its ok to use regular ftp) to the secure folder..

plesk uses httpsdocs dir as ssl protected directory.

thks for the reply. I think i did not make my point clear.

I mean my customer want to use sftp to access those files instead of normal ftp. Those files are text files and not meant to be displayed.

The problem i am facing is the server i am in is not a SFTP server and as such, connection cannot be make using sftp commands.

Can anybody point me a direction how to solve this issue? My host provider do not reply me at all!! Very poor customer service and i need to solve this problem urgently.

If your provider does not allow sftp connections then not much we can do...you need to talk with your provider or get another.

The sftp that I was talking about works off the normal ftp but is client dependent. Most clients have some sort of option to enable secure ftp.

SCP is the ftp type stuff over ssh, it is different and requires shell.