Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:56:12 -0600 From: Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> To: takhoos@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching username using SFTP Message-ID: <20080113145612.GA6298@aleph.cepheid.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY124-W15367F1F68DE6567F0796FAA450@phx.gbl> References: <BAY124-W15367F1F68DE6567F0796FAA450@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, takhoos@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the
> system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l host.domain.com.
>
> How does one do this with SFTP on the command line? The -l switch
> doesn't work. The man pages on SFTP makes no mention of this.
>
> -- Joe
The man page implies the correct use at the top:
sftp [[user@]host[:dir[/]]]
So sftp user@host.example.com works. Lower down in the file, it also
mentions using options, and it turns out that this works as well:
sftp -o User=username host.example.com
Erik
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