FW: 2 sftp questions - Solved

[Claude Jones]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:19 -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
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>>Ok - it's what I suspected, and perhaps as you suspected. I have to log 
>>in from the same user. If I su in Bash to root, and try to log in to my 
>>user name on the remote computer, it fails. If I open a Bash terminal as 
>>user and try to log in as user, it works. Thanks for your help!
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>You should be able to specify the account name you want to log in as on
>the sftp command line, e.g.
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>$ sftp user at some.host
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>For instance, my account names at home and at work are different, so
>there would be no way for me to log in from one place to the other if I
>couldn't specify the account name in this way. If you've used "su" then
>the default account name it's using may not be the one you're expecting;
>it's probably best to explicitly state which account name you're using,
>as in the example above.
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Ok. I'll have to try that, tho I could swear I did, and it didn't work.

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA