Definitions for "SFTP"
Keywords:  ssh, ftp, openssh, specauth, iads
Secure FTP - Like SCP, but more like FTP.
( Secure File Transfer Protocol) SFTP is a protocol similar to ftp, but performs all operations over an encrypted ssh transport, thus gaining the features of public key encryption and compression.
An interactive file transfer program which performs all operations over an encrypted SSH transport. It may also use many features of OpenSSH. Shibboleth An Internet2 project to provide inter-domain Authorization information. Special Authorization (SpecAuth) An Oracle-based system to record information about UW-Madison affiliates that are not students (and thus in ISIS) or employees (and thus in IADS). Examples include hospital employees, retirees, guest lecturers, etc. SpecAuth was originally used to get photo ID's for non-student/non-employee, but is now used for a wider variety of things.