How to Set up SFTP Server on Ubuntu

Ganesh Prasad
3 min readApr 27, 2024

In this article, we will learn how to use our Ubuntu system as an Sftp server; in my case, I will use my EC2 instance, which has Ubuntu preinstalled. We will access the server locally using one of many ftp clients and put some files to test.

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FTP (file transfer protocol) is a protocol that allows anyone to transfer files over a network. When we make it secure, and the transferred data is encrypted, we

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Ganesh Prasad

Backend Developer at Appscrip | C++ veteran, 💜 Dart