Re: Setting up sftp.

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 09:36, David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got ssh working between 2 computers and I want to take advantage of sftp
> as well. I did not find any sftp packages to install. I read the sftp-server
> manpage which says that sftp-server is started by sshd. Therefore, I tried
> to connect to the other machine using sftp by failed. It prompts me for
> password and upon supplying the correct password, an error message appears
> saying "<something> is too long" (sorry, can't remember the exact
> <something>) and disconnects there after. So, did I miss out anything or did
> anything wrong? btw, can anyone point me to a good tutorial on the web to
> set up ssh and sftp? Although I got ssh running, I don't really understand
> how it authenticate users. It just works out of the box, thankfully. :)
> 
check to make sure that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the following line and
that it is not commented out.

Subsystem	sftp	/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

other thatn that I am not sure I can help you.

you might also try 

sftp -v machinename  

This should give you alot of debugging information.

You will neeed to send the error message if you want more specific
help.  I am suprised I even responded to this post with the lack of
consideration of MY time shown by not trying to help the helper as it
were.

man ssh  
man sshd

are good resources. You might have to read it a couple of times since
you will glean more knowledge each pass through that will allow you to
understand more the next time through

function learn (manpage) {
for line in $(man $manpage); do 
	read $line
done 
if  [ ! understand ] then 
	learn $1
fi

Sorry for the attitude I am feeling pissy this morning I guess.

HTH

Bret