[Gllug] SFTP Server

[Rickey Costas]

To setup SSH to not require passwords, when logging in, a good read is:
http://bumblebee.lcs.mit.edu/ssh2/

If you want a bit more security than having passwordless keys, you should run 
ssh-agent. Details at: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cns/software/ssh-agent.html

Note that SFTP runs "on top of" SSH, so once you have the above working, SFTP 
should work too.

However, this also means that if you can SFTP somewhere, you can ssh to it. To 
restrict this, I've used scponly to good effect. 
http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/

And the best SFTP client is FileZilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/.


Hope that helps,

Rickey.





Neil Fryer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Can anyone point me to some really decent docs for the above, as I have to
> set up two of these in a hurry, and I know that SFTP is a subsystem of SSH,
> and I have enabled it in the sshd_config file, but now I need to allow key
> authentication, and to generate my own keys, and I don't know how to do
> this.
> 
> Thanks
> Neil Fryer
> 


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