These steps walk you through the process of setting up an SFTP server on Linux for the secure transfer of files for specialized file transfer-only users.

Need to lock down that Linux server so certain remote users can only access a specific directory and only for file upload and download purposes? Jack Wallen shows you how.

Jack Wallen walks you through creating new users and groups on Linux and adding those new users to the new groups.

Many, if not most, Linux distributions can be set to start SSH automatically. Linux — like Mac OS X — by extension usually permits the machine to be used as an SFTP server if sshd is running.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.