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

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-sftp-the-requirement-for-running-ansible-scripts-on-the-remote-server/14571>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 15, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-sftp-the-requirement-for-running-ansible-scripts-on-the-remote-server/14571 "2014-02-15T01:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![YuLing\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@YuLing\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/YuLing_Chen)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-sftp-the-requirement-for-running-ansible-scripts-on-the-remote-server/14571/1 "2014-02-15T01:59:07Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-sftp-the-requirement-for-running-ansible-scripts-on-the-remote-server/14571/2 "2014-02-17T15:22:13Z")

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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](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#scp-if-ssh)

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**Author:** ![YuLing\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@YuLing\_Chen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/YuLing_Chen)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-sftp-the-requirement-for-running-ansible-scripts-on-the-remote-server/14571/3 "2014-02-18T02:58:53Z")

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Thanks very much!

-YuLing