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Secure Your SFTP Connections with Multi-Factor Authentication in ForkLift 4.2.8
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming increasingly necessary to protect online accounts and sensitive data. Many hosting providers and organizations now require MFA for added security. To ensure that ForkLift remains compatible with modern security standards, we have introduced support for MFA in ForkLift 4.2.8.
How Multi-Factor Authentication Works in ForkLift
When establishing an SFTP connection in ForkLift 4.2.8, you simply need to select SFTP as the protocol. From there, ForkLift will handle the authentication process dynamically, based on the responses it receives from the SFTP server:
- If the server requires a password, ForkLift will prompt you to enter it.
- If the server requires an verification code, ForkLift will ask for it.
- If multiple authentication steps are needed, ForkLift will guide you through the process, requesting each necessary code until authentication is complete.
Ghostty: A Highly Requested Terminal Application
We are also excited to announce that ForkLift 4.2.8 adds support for a new terminal application: Ghostty. This addition has been highly requested by many users, so we made sure to include it in this release.
Users can set Ghostty as the default terminal application under
ForkLift > Settings > General > Terminal Application.
Once set, Ghostty will open when using the File > Open in Terminal command or the Terminal button in the toolbar. We hope that many users will find this addition useful.
Get Started with ForkLift 4.2.8
If you encounter any issues while using multi-factor authentication or any other features in ForkLift 4.2.8, please let us know.
Happy and secure file transferring with ForkLift!
Full list of changes:
New
- Adds an option to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with SFTP connections – no user configuration required
- Adds support for Ghostty as a terminal application, which can be selected in the settings
Improvement
- The AppMover, introduced in version 4.2.6 to move ForkLift into the Applications folder when launched from a different location, now asks only once whether to move ForkLift
Fixes
- Fixes a possible silent crash (no crash report was available) introduced in version 4.2.6 with the OpenSSH implementation, where ForkLift could crash when connected to an SFTP server, especially after waking the computer from sleep
- Fixes an issue that made opening folders containing symlinks to an external drive very slow
- Fixes an issue introduced in version 4.2.6 that made it impossible to use the Delete toolbar button in combination with the Option key to permanently delete selected items
- Fixes an issue where files would jump around when grouping by Kind was enabled, and the sorting type was changed
- Fixes an issue where the color of item names and types in the preview pane didn’t update correctly when switching between dark and light themes
- Fixes an issue where ForkLift was copied instead of moved into the Applications folder after the new AppMover feature (introduced in version 4.2.6) prompted the user and attempted to move it
- Numerous minor fixes and improvements