CSU Stanislaus Shield CSU STANISLAUS DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CSU STANISLAUS DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Using sFTP in Mac OS X


• You may do the following steps to use terminal sftp to transfer files or you may download the GUI application Cyberduck.




• Start the Terminal application.






• At the prompt, type in "sftp" followed by your username@ and the name of any of the following computers:

   ada.csustan.edu, kestrel.csustan.edu, chomsky.csustan.edu,
   godel.csustan.edu, hopper.csustan.edu, linus.csustan.edu,
   pascal.csustan.edu, turing.csustan.edu, wozniak.csustan.edu



• The following screen will pop up the first time you connect to a computer. You may verify the fingerprint at http://www.cs.csustan.edu/resources_files/fingerprints.html. Type "yes" once you have verified the key.



• You will be asked for your password.



• You are now connected to a computer in the CS lab. You can transfer files from your home computer to the computer in the lab or you may get files from the computer in the lab.