On 3/5/08, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've heard of passive ftp but this is new to me. I searched the Web for > 'passive sftp' and got 32 hits total of which only a few applied and > none of which explained anything. FTP protocole requires that the FTP server opens a connection to the client. Passive FTP works around this behaviour. This doesn't make sense in the case of SFTP where there is no such back channel (i.e : opened from server to the client). Stephane