If a fear of the command line has prevented you from making use of the more secure sftp, Jack Wallen wants to show you how you can easily connect to that remote server, with a simple file manager.

By doing this, you ensure that those who need to work with SFTP are locked into a specific directory and cannot access the server’s directory structure. How do you do this? By using a chroot jail.

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.