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The SSH File Transfer Protocol, (sometimes called Secure File Transfer Protocol, Secure FTP), or SFTP, is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream.

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SFTP user can't edit or create files

Server: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I am using openSSH and have created an SFTP user called bob who belongs to group sftponly. I have chrooted bob to his home directory which is /usr/share/nginx/www/bob/. bob is able to SFTP onto the server and view is home…
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SSH/SFTP connections fails silently on OSX 10.8.2 - ssh-agent issue

I'm trying to login to a remote machine with SSH or SFTP. when I try ssh u-indgo@ssh1.eu1.frbit.com the CLI just won't respond. I get an empty new line, in which I can type characters, but nothing more. when I try to connect with SFTP using the…
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write permission denied via filezilla sftp to /var/www/html

Ok, I'm almost completely new to linux and apache configuration. My problem is that I've got apache displaying the default page, but when I try and access it via sFTP it tells me that I have write permission denied when trying to write to…
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sftp with anonymous user

How I can set a anonymous sftp user ? I generate the ssh keys pair, set /usr/lib/sftp-server as shell in /etc/password and share the private key (id_rsa) and with this command the users get access sftp -oIdentityFile=id_rsa public_sftp@host is a…
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Detecting upload success/failure in a scripted command-line SFTP session?

I am writing a BASH shell script to upload all the files in a directory to a remote server and then delete them. It'll run every few hours via a CRON job. My complete script is below. The basic problem is that the part that's supposed to figure…
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How to specify file permission when putting a file using OpenSSH sftp command

I am using various SFTP clients for uploading files to an SFTP server and I have a problem with default permission used when putting files. When requesting to put a file, SFTP client like WinSCP or Filezilla will send the SSH_OPEN command without…
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How can i check if a file is well transfered when using SFTP?

I have an issue on my server: when folder quota is reached and someone tries to upload a file, he doesn't get any error code and he deposits a 0 bytes file. So I want to know if there's any solution (integrity check for example) to check if the…
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sftp connection closed after correct password

I'm running an sftp server on port 10022 using openssh-server on debian, hosted on EC2/AWS. I have configured password-based authentication for a single user, but the server connection is closed immediately after I submit the correct password. Here…
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sftp How to get stat attributes?

Is it possible to do stat via sftp cli tool? For example Python's SFTP client has this feature, but I didn't find it in sftp cli tool. I need to get SFTP attributes to work with in script.
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fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component "/" in SFTP

I've been trying to configure sftp in a debian server.sshd_config: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp UsePAM no Match User sftpUser ChrootDirectory /users/sftp/sftpUser ForceCommand internal-sftp AllowTcpForwarding no X11Forwarding no Directories: …
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sftp server chroot initial directory

I have configured an sftp server with chroot and it works fine, the only thing that is bothering me is the initial landing directory, since the sftp user does not have write permissions in the landing folder he has to go to a folder named after his…
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Forward SFTP user to chroot subdirectory after authentication

I've set up a SFTP server using OpenSSH, everything works fine and the users I created can connect. After authentication, the users find themselves directly inside /chroot, a directory they are not allowed to write into. So I've put a /subdirectory…
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How to open sftp connection and execute sftp command in the same shell command

Is there any possibility for opening sftp connection to remote server and execute sftp command in same line from shell. Something like this: sftp user@example.com && put /tmp/test.txt /tmp/ where put is sftp command. My idea is to put file from…
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Different "RequiredAuthentications2" for sshd and sftp subsystem

we're currently using a 2factor authentication on our SSH servers, so we have "RequiredAuthentications2 publickey,keyboard-interactive" in our sshd_config (publickey for the key, keyboard-interactive is for the 2factor which is handled via PAM) To…
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Can't get rsync over sftp to work

I'm trying to set up a backup system from an Ubuntu server to a Synology NAS (DS413j) using rsync and sftp. I have created a user for this that we can call ubuntu-backup. I have a directory in ubuntu-backup home directory called www where the backup…
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