The Globus Toolkit's GridFTP code base has become the de facto standard for data
movement within Grid projects, and is in use in the vast majority of such
projects in the US and abroad. These projects appreciate GridFTP's integration
with the public key infrastructure (PKI)-based Grid Security Infrastructure
(GSI), as well as its implementation of the fast, efficient, and robust GridFTP
data transport protocol. Another important user community for GridFTP comprises
small application groups and researchers and they struggle due to challenges
inherent in configuring GSI. For this user community, GridFTP's reliance on GSI can represent a time investment that is not justified, due to the associated need to establish, configure, and manage an appropriate PKI. Thus, this community has expressed a strong interest in seeing extensions to GridFTP that would allow for alternative security solutions. Motivated by these requests, we have developed what is called GridFTP-Lite that uses a SSH based authentication mechanism. <br><br>

<a href="http://www.globus.org/toolkit/data/gridftp/quickstart.html">Quickstart
Guide for GridFTP-Lite</a> <br>