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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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OpenSSH for Windows denies public key login with AD user

On aWindows 10, v 1903 system, I am running v 8.0.0.0 of OpenSSH for Windows and trying to connect to it, using public key, from a remote location Username and password authentication works fine. ...
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Sublime Text 3 slow sidebar over sshfs

I'm checking out Sublime Text 3 since I'm looking to replace my current text editor, I need something that runs natively on Ubuntu. Sublime Text 3 seems to be what I want, but I'm a very heavy SFTP ...
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How to set up an alias in a sftp session?

I usually map 'ls -l' to ll on my terminal. So 'll' is the most frequent command I use. I found that habitually I use 'll' on interactive sftp session. Is it possible to create an alias for sftp?
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Some FTP folders not visible to client

I ran into a very interesting issue today. In my directory I have: hearts laptops pets scaledBU spotlights Each of those are directories. I created these directories using FileZilla but they are ...
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Tab Auto-Completion in Mac OS X when using sftp in terminal

i have been getting very frustrated lately since the readline functionality has been removed from MacOSX and Tab Auto-Completion doesn't work anymore. So i was wondering if anyone knew a good ...
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Can't write or download to SFTP on Ubuntu Server 10.04

I'm having a problem setting up SFTP with an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS x64. I use openSSH with public key authentication, I can login with SSH perfectly with the keys no problem. I can also connect to ...
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sftp with wsl as default OpenSSH shell on Windows 10

On Windows 10 I can set the default OpenSSH shell to be wsl with the following PowerShell command. New-ItemProperty ` -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH" ` -Name DefaultShell ` -Value "C:\...
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ssh tunneling for sftp in MobaXterm in Windows system

How to set ssh tunneling for sftp in MobaXterm? I know PuTTY can set ssh tunneling for sftp when there is a gateway between your local computer and the remote server. But I can not find the same ...
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How to set mobaxterm to factory settings?

I have been using mobaxterm for ssh connection to a ubuntu server to compile and run C programs. I use the sftp settings to edit code on the fly with its built in text editor. Everything was great ...
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FileZilla sftp attempts to authorize via key before set password

I'm using FileZilla to sftp into a remote server. The logon type is "normal" with a username and password set. However, when I try to connect, based on level 3 debugging in FileZilla, it tries all of ...
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Browse files on VLC SFTP

I can open a folder or file over SFTP on VLC via Media > Open Network Stream > Play. If I open the file it plays perfectly, but if I open a folder it plays the first file found recursively. Is ...
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Allow users to download files via SFTP, delete files, but not add or modify

I have an SFTP server on CentOS 7.4 (through the standard sshd), and I want to adjust the server so that users can download files in their directory, delete files in their directory, but cannot upload ...
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SFTP partial authentication using publickey,password preferred authentication methods

I'm encountering an issue when attempting to connect to an SFTP server that requires both public key and password authentication. The source server is a fully up-to-date CentOS 7 server (SFTP debug ...
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Server load affection due to excesive SFTP connections to sync server

I am planning to synchronize around 200 very small files per hour (less than 1KB each file), the source files are on a remote SFTP server and the destination files are on a Windows Server. My fear is ...
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SFTP with chroot in a folder that can not have root privileges

I have troubles with setup a SFTP with chroot in "public" folder. Each client on my server has 3 to X accounts. These three accounts are: USER - system account only for internal use, requires full ...
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Provide SFTP access to all users to mounted s3fs directory on EC2 instance

I have created 10 SFTP users on the EC2 instance and I am able to login to the server. I have an SSH key for all users for authentication instead of a password. I am mounting the s3 bucket to one ...
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Cannot list files & directories in Proftpd & SFTP mode

I'm running SFTP /proftpd# proftpd -V Compile-time Settings: Version: 1.3.7a (maint) Platform: LINUX [Linux 6.1.10-x86_64-linode159 x86_64] Built: Sat Sep 18 2021 21:42:19 UTC Built With: ...
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How can it be that different permissions apply using SFTP-client vs. SSHFS?

Setup SFTP+SSHFS I have some Synology NAS configured to be able to use SFTP and SSHFS with some special user. It's important to note that this user is not root, but some different one. While I'm able ...
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Downloding files via SFTP on MobaXterm gets stuck when filenames are in Hebrew

When I try to download files whose names Hebrew characters, the download gets stuck and shows an error: Error EInOutError: I/O error 123 How do I fix this? I don't want to use another FTP client, I ...
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Authentication to access SFTP service using LDAP/KeyClock

My SFTP server is running in K8S pod.I have created service and ingress to access SFTP service from remote.Till this point it is working as expected.I am trying to setup authentication to access SFTP ...
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Detect SFTP Login And Perform A Web Request

I am running a SFTP server on Linux/Debian. What I want is to detect when a user connects to the Server and then execute a bash script on the server in which I perform a web request. In this web ...
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sshd "received disconnect: disconnected by user"

I can successfully login to the SFTP server (uses SFTP chrooting), but every time I issue ls, the connection will close: I mounted /logs/xxx to /sftp/user/xxx and am unsure if the binding I did has ...
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How to limit the access of a local windows user to only a specific folder?

I've set up an OpenSSH SFTP connection with the help of documentation and WinSCP and want a colleague to be able to upload files to my computer using this SFTP connection. I've created a new local ...
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Notepad++ NppFTP Connecting [SFTP] Connection failed : Socket error: disconnected

I connect to the server with ssh turnnel. ssh middleHost -L 12345:desHost:22 The server is FreeBSD.(OpenSSH_6.2p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8y) It work successfully when using sftp in terminal sftp -oPort=...
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How can I speed up SFTP?

I'm on a setup that requires me to use SFTP to send files to my server. It takes a 2-4 seconds for the SFTP server to connect, and every time I change folders, it's another 1-2 seconds for the file ...
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File upload to sftp server not working

I have two servers in same network. I can connect a sFTP server from both these server. But cannot upload files with size more than 1KB from Server A, but from B everything is working fine. I checked ...
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OpenSSH for Windows ignoring Match User directives

I am usingOpenSSH for Windows 7.7p1 on Windows 1903. I used Match User xxxx in sshd_config file, in Program Data -> SSH to change xxxx's root directory to another path in the filesystem, apart from ...
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SFTP processing from mainframe to server with Crush FTP software failing key authentication

We are in the process of converting all FTP mainframe jobs to SFTP. I used the ssh-keygen -f id_dsa_userid command to create the key pairs. Sent the public key to client to be copied into their ...
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SFTP put gets unexpected EOF on 50M file on first transfer of the day

I am executing SFTP to put a file to a new external client. We have about 10 other clients, some internal and some external, that we upload to without problems. This new client is on a VPN with us (...
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Remote sync without rsync

My setup is as follows: Two Linux machines running Debian 9 A "storage box" on the internet rented from a cloud hosting company. This box can only be accessed via the SFTP, Samba and WebDAV protocols ...
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Is there a way to print filename with path from SFTP in Unix server?

I am trying to print file names along with path from SFTP server to other location. I am able to get file names but not path. Below is the code that I have used: echo "ls *.gpg" | sftp [email protected]....
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File sharing with Linux server and Windows and Mac clients

I'm looking for a local solution to share files amongst 12 users. About 4 to 8 users will be working at the same time. Client computers: 8 computers with Windows 8/10 Professional 2 computers with ...
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Exclude path on FileZilla files search

I’d like to exclude directories from the file search window but I can’t manage to do that. As you can see the argument Path → Not Contains don’t prevent fileZilla to search into the LOGS folder… ...
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Unable to connect to google cloud platform instance via SFTP with Filezilla

Does anyone know the proper way to connect Filezilla SFTP to WordPress Instance on Google's Compute Engine? I generated the SSH keys and input it into Filezilla but it connects and then kicks me out. ...
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SFTP over gateway

I'm trying to connect to a server (with SFTP) through a gateway, but I can't find a solution with SSH tunnelling. This is how it should work : Connect to ssh gatewayserver using user1/password1 sudo ...
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Error with AWS ubuntu server connecting to FileZilla

Made an Amazon web service instance today, with ubuntu server, it's working fine with apache, I can connect to the website on the browser without issues. But when I try to connect to FileZilla I get a ...
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My host offers SFTP only, not SSH. Can I still use private key authentication? i.e., does SFTP use SSH implicitly?

I'm using WP Engine as my host. They are a managed host and they never offer shell access. However, they do allow setup of SFTP accounts. My (limited) understanding is that SFTP still uses an SSH ...
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1 chroot sftp user that is able to traverse all other chroot sftp users files/folders

I have a chroot environment that I have setup on CentOS 6. We have users for all of our trading partners and I would like to create an internal user for another department that can sftp in and only ...
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"No supported authentication methods available" when connecting to gcloud with FileZilla

I've followed this guide: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/lamp/transfer-files I have my private key generated and added to FileZilla but I can't seem to connect. The guide specifies ...
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Mounting shared directory for chroot users

I ran in to an interesting issue with mounting that doesn't make any sense to me. Basically I have setup a chroot environment for SFTP users, they each have a chroot directory with a format of "/sftp/...
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What is wrong with this FTP server?

Trying to upload files to a web host and the FTP server seems awful. I keep getting the error Error: The data connection could not be established: ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out And when ...
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Is there any way to change the file permission of the file while doing SFTP?

As I send a file via SFTP to a windows server. When I do this,the default file permission will be 640. there we have a scheduler task which will run on a particular time to grab the files. Due to the ...
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How to create a ssh key so that it can only use sshfs on a Synology NAS?

I have an ssh key without a paraphrase that allows a user to log in to a remote server. This key is used to mount a folder in the remote server using sshfs and backup the files in my laptop. I would ...
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swish sftp: Hide hidden files

I want to mount a directory with SSH. Is it possible to hide dot-files in swish sftp? Is it possible to dislay folders on top of the list?
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Linux Quota Custom Error Message via SFTP

Is it possible to pass a custom error message to the sftp client when the user exceeds the soft or at least the hard quota limit? My SFTP Client (WinSCP) shows me an error message in which it states ...
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How to prevent a user from viewing the entire file-system?

I've set up SFTP/SSH so that a user can only put to their home directory, however, they can still cd to all other directories and get files that they see. How can I prevent this? EDIT: My ...
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Solaris shd_config file resets after restart of ssh - how to prevent this?

How do i avoid this happening, i need the sshd_config file to contain Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server oot@uln-pca-oracle-solaris-11-2023-10-16fqbbqv:/export/home/opc# echo "Subsystem ...
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lftp for sftp is not working; stuck on `ls' at 0 [Connecting...]

I am having an issue with lftp where it gets stuck on `ls' at 0 [Connecting...] for an SFTP connection. Versions: Linux 3.10.0-1160.108.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 4 14:55:32 EST 2024 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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Make sftp-server return a banner/disclaimer

I am deprecating sftp access in favor of a restricted ssh based API. I need the sftp-server (OpenSSH) to return a fixed message "SFTP access will be shutdown soon", preferably on STDERR, ...
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Add read-only user to a specific folder of an existing sFTP server

I have set up an sFTP server with a group sftp_only. The users belonging to this group can read everywhere within the folder structure /srv/sftp/project_data/ I used to add a user via the following ...
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