On 12 Oct 2006, at 15:30 , Chris Pepper wrote:
doing a psa yeild the above, plus:
kreme 94499 0.0 0.3 6140 1940 ?? S 3:05PM 0:00.01
sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sshd)
I have no idea what sftp-server is, but it's not what my system
uses for sftp.
sftp-server might only be used to process individual commands;
you'd need to run ps during an SFTP transfer to verify.
Ok, sorted. I was psa'ing on "ssh" and not ftp. Silly me.
in /etc/ssh/sshd_config there should be the following line:
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/sftp-server
This is what allows sftp and Yes, if you comment out that line and
HUP sshd, then sftp will not work. However, the default is to allow
it, so someone had to make a conscious choice to disallow it. Why?
It makes absolutely no sense. If you are allowing ssh, disallowing
sftp is nonsensical. It's exactly as secure as ssh and it gives you
exactly the same level of access as ssh and its pathetic array of ftp-
like commands can easily be duplicated with scp, so it's only a
matter of some convenience to have sftp.
I'm baffled.
I have ssh access to a rather large number of machines and none of
them forbid sftp.
In fact, I had to google to even find out about that setting.
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