Is SFTP the requirement for running ansible scripts on the remote server?

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Hi All,

I’m new to Ansible and there is a dumb question… it seems that in default set up, SFTP is required on the remote server to run the Ansible scripts. I have a remote server that only has ssh/scp turned on. Is there any configuration in Ansible that we can do so that we can also run Ansible scripts in this case without SFTP being installed on the remote server?

Thanks very much,

YuLing

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If you are using the SSH transport (which is the default for most Linux systems except for Enterprise Linux, which has a downlevel openssh client) - see http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#scp-if-ssh

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Thanks very much!

-YuLing