Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:39:02 -0500 From: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "'Justin P. Michel'" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> Subject: Re: Secure FTP Message-ID: <3D075D06.4060102@stevenfettig.com> References: <E2D6558ABE18D4119E720060084C966D02E6F817@AURORA> <1917976790.20020612132206@dds.nl>
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Alex wrote: >Dear Simas, > >Wednesday, June 12, 2002, 9:12:35 AM, you wrote: > >SC> Hello, > > > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Justin P. Michel [mailto:jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca] >>>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:05 AM >>>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>>Subject: Secure FTP >>> >>> >>>Greetings, >>> >>>Can someone direct me to a program that I can use as a secure >>>FTP daemon? I >>>would like to use a feature on my ftp program called - SFTP (SSH2) - >>>allowing public-key access, but I have no idea what steps are >>>needed to >>>configure the server end of things. >>> >>> > >SC> Short explanation :) > >SC> Enter this line in your /etc/sshd_config if you don't have it yet >SC> (on the server machine) and restart sshd: > >SC> Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/sftp-server > >SC> Restart sshd and add client's public key to ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys2 >SC> on the server machine. Be sure that firewall allows sftp connections. > >SC> Simas Cepaitis >SC> simas@5ci.lt > >SC> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >SC> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >I beleave it comes as standard. Just enable SSH though the rc.conf and >ftp trougth inetd.conf and connect with sftp. > > > No, you do not have to enable ftp through inetd.conf in order to enable sftp -- in fact, this defeats the purpose of having sftp enabled imho. As long as ssh is enabled through rc.conf (via a generic install - I am assuming you haven't made any major modifications to the normal FreeBSD install), sftp will work. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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