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Upload means sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred.

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How can I create a user only for sftp?

I have added a user to the system via the adduser tool. Then, in /etc/passwd, I tried changing the /bin/bash to /sbin/nologin or to /dev/null, but neither of these worked. I would like the user not ...
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Allow anonymous upload for Vsftpd?

I need a basic FTP server on Linux (CentOS 5.5) without any security measure, since the server and the clients are located on a test LAN, not connected to the rest of the network, which itself uses ...
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How can I create a user account that only allows for uploads via sftp?

I currently have a website with an upload page. We have users who want to upload lots of data (gigabytes), and the website is proving to be fickle. As a result, we're considering letting the users ...
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ssh access without password

I know that it is possible to ssh to another server without a password if authentication keys are set on both the servers. But I will like to know if it is possible to allow users from any IP (known/...
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Reliable file transfer over slow or flaky network link

I need to transfer a number of files files over a low-quality broadband link to a server. The files are large, and take approximately 30 minutes to transfer per file. I use scp, but it sometimes ...
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How to detect or log interrupted uploads with OpenSSH SFTP server?

I have this problem where a customer of ours has been SFTP-ing truncated data. I'm not sure if the problem is on our end or his. I've enabled SFTP logging but it does not allow me to detect if an ...
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How to upload configuration files using the shell provider?

Apart from installing applications like emacs on my guest machine, I would also like to upload some configuration files (e.g. to configure emacs for Clojure development). Sadly, Vagrant's ...
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Windows 7 - Network File Copy Intermittently Fails During Upload to NAS

The client machine is running 64 bit Windows 7 and attempting to copy a relatively small file to our NAS device. The NAS device is a Lacie model running (I believe) some variant of Windows XP and has ...
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File uploads taking more time

We recently moved to a new server. We have observed that the file upload done from the ftp command is taking around 5sec for 5MB file. But same file uploaded through CURL command is taking about 140 ...
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How to customized Squid access log to show upload files just as its recording download files

Just wondering , is there a way to check upload content or any data related to uploads using squid logs ? Any plugin or enhancement? any other viable option. grateful for any advice . Thanks..
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PHP file upload limit

Im running CentOS. Im not exactly sure the standard max upload limit in PHP, but i tried to upload an 8MB file and i see a loading status on my browser, when it reached 100, it does nothing. the ...
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How do I ensure a REST API does not have a bottleneck when it receives requests? [closed]

I'm creating a REST API that will listen on a public URL and accept uploads of large amounts of data. I understand how to scale software processes using message queues, but what I don't understand is ...
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