Secure file transfer program (sftp)

wikipedia:Secure file transfer program

 This service allows sftp connections only.

Activities

• Read https://askubuntu.com/a/206376 sftp configuration

Logs

If public-key authentication fails it will be the only mesage logged.

May 07 15:28:06 SERVER sshd[1869802]: Connection closed by authenticating user USERNAME 23.33.xx.xx port 12547 [preauth]

Example of successfully session:

May 07 15:35:07 SERVER sshd[1870236]: Accepted publickey for USER from xx.xx.xx.xx port 60249 ssh2: ED25519 SHA256:EPEztZnnCh/fPqJ5wlgXUYMMx+LOOIegGdF76galaXw
May 07 15:35:07 SERVER sshd[1870236]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user USER by (uid=0)
May 07 15:35:07 SERVER systemd-logind[2350]: New session 2668 of user USER.
May 07 15:35:07 SERVER systemd[1]: Started Session 2668 of user USER.

Related terms

• jailkit
• scp
• rsync
• Sftp configuration

See also

• sftp, sftp chroot configuration, Filezilla, Core FTP, sshfs, internal-sftp, sshd_config, SFTP protocol, Secure file transfer program (sftp)
• rsync, scp, sftp, rsnapshot, rclone, rdiff
• OpenSSH (changelog): /etc/ssh/sshd_config | /etc/ssh/ssh_config | ~/.ssh/ | openSSL | sshd logs | sftp | scp | authorized_keys | ssh-keygen | ssh-keyscan | ssh-add | ssh-agent | ssh | Ssh -O stop | ssh-copy-id | CheckHostIP | UseKeychain, OpenSSF