SFTP via proftpd

samend

• January 19, 2015 08:06

Hello Community is there an way to use SFTP via the proftpd Server under Cloudlinux?

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  APTadmins

  • January 19, 2015 13:19

  Hi, You can use the following step. I have configured sftp usinf below step.. Create a file like below. vi /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftp.conf and add the following content to the file. SFTPEngine on Port 2222 SFTPLog /var/log/proftpd/sftp.log # Configure both the RSA and DSA host keys, using the same host key # files that OpenSSH uses. SFTPHostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key SFTPHostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key SFTPAuthMethods publickey SFTPAuthorizedUserKeys file:/etc/proftpd/authorized_keys/%u # Enable compression SFTPCompression delayed SSH Key authentication. Proftp is able to use ssh key to authenticate users. But the keys should be in RFC4716 format. Make a directory to store key mkdir /etc/proftpd/authorized_keys Convert the public keys that are currently used to log into the server sudo ssh-keygen -e -f ~username/.ssh/authorized_keys | sudo tee /etc/proftpd/authorized_keys/username Restart proftpd service proftpd restart Hope this will help you. Thanks

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  samend

  • January 20, 2015 06:38

  Thanks for your reply i have done this yesterday but it was not succesfull!

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  cPanelMichael

  • January 20, 2015 12:33

  Hello :) SFTP should work by default without modifying your FTP configuration. SFTP is essentially FTP over SSH, so it's a completely different protocol than standard FTP. One point to remember is that when you create virtual FTP accounts via cPanel, users can not access SFTP with those authentication details. Only the cPanel account username/password is able to authenticate with SFTP. Thank you.

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