kb.hurricane-ridge.com » scp http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com My personal - but public - knowledge base Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Using sftp on an alternate port http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/applications/using-sftp-on-an-alternate-port http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/applications/using-sftp-on-an-alternate-port#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:43:03 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=580 Unlike ssh and scp, sftp does not have a “-p” or “-P” flag to specify an alternate port. Instead, if the host you are connecting to has ssh running on a port other than 22, you need to use the “-o” flag:

sftp -oPort=2345 remote.hurricane-ridge.com

According to the man page, “-o” allows you to “give options in the format used in the configuration file.”

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