SSH File Transfer Protocol

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Setting up ssh and sftp for multiple users

I am trying to setup an sftp server and I am having issues getting it to work exactly as I like. My server has two hard drives, the first is used for the os, and it contains all of the users home ...
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How to close sftp connections made by dolphin?

after using dolphin to connect to a ssh site, for example: sftp://myserver.com and using my user and pass... how can I close that connection so I can log in with another user? It does always auto ...
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File Transfer mode in sftp

I am a newbie to ftp and sftp as well as Linux. Can you please advise what is the default mode of file transfer in sftp? I know in ftp, we have transfer modes (binary and ascii). It would also be ...
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Disable unknown ftp server

I am sitting in front of a Ubuntu 12.4. which is running an SFTP server, that I want to stop / disable. The problem is that I don't know what the name of the ftp sever is. How do I find that out ...
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Changing write permissions for jailed SFTP denies login

I have scouted over many websites and forums on how to setup an SFTP user that is jailed to a certain directory using CHROOT. Here are the steps I have followed but I can't seem to get write ...
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Mount folder using ssh twice (first ssh to gate, then from gate to workstation)

My current situation is that I have my personal laptop, and I there is a workstation I need to be able to mount. But before I can get to that workstation, I first need to ssh into the gate of the ...
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Nautilus' remote folder default mount point

I connect a remote folder in Nautilus (file info says that it is done via sftp), and within it the folder becomes fully browseable. But I can't access it from the other applications: I couldn't find ...
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Can't find sftp in XBMC

According to http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=SFTP , SFTP should be available in XBMC, but I tried the current version available in the Ubuntu official repository (11.0) as well as 10.1, and it's ...
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how to create a user that has full rights under sftp in certain folder in ubuntu server

I just installed an Ubuntu 12.04 server in a dedicated box to host 2 sites I have, under one site there is a folder, lets call it /aaaaa and I want to create a user that have full rights under this ...
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Setting up SFTP-only users breaks SSH connections

I have a cluster of machines (LAN) set up for password-less SSH login for running code in parallel. No problems with the SSH or functionality, however... I'm trying to set up an sftp-only (no shell) ...
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Unable to SFTP/FTP to my Ubuntu LAMP/WEB Server

earlier today , I installed Ubuntu 12.04 server on my Linode Xen VPS and set up a LAMP and a web server , I can SSH to the server fine , but Unable to SFTP/FTP to it , i've tried the option " Connect ...
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Sync User Data on Server with individual Ubuntu One accounts

I have just setup an Ubuntu Repo Server and a users server in our lab and I hope to find out a way to sync all their data in their individual home folders to their respective Ubuntu One accounts. The ...
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problem with nautilus using sftp in ubuntu 13.04

I'm accesing a ssh server with Nautilus and if I leave it without activity for a while and I try ti acces again to any folder, It doesnt respond at all until I unmount it... I think nautilus doesn't ...
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How To Jail Root www-data to /var/www

How do I jail root www-data to the /var/www folder so that when one uses SFTP as www-data to login they only access /var/www? And would this have any repercussions with problems with Apache if I did ...
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Can't remember password in nautilus for sftp

Why it's not possible to "remember password" in nautilis for sftp? For ftp it's working great and passwords stores in "seahorse". How i can solve this?
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All FTP and SFTP users see the same directory as root?

I'm trying to configure an Ubuntu Server to provide a 'common' FTP and SFTP capability, so that no matter what the username being used for logging in, users will see the same directory (let's say, ...
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SFTP via Terminal Error

I cant connect to a server via sftp any more, i could yesterday. Here is the full sftp -vvv log, maybe you could help me out? Tried deleting ~/.ssh, tried hosts.allow / hosts.deny. No solution at all. ...
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How to setup SFTP with Chrooted for Groups

After many trials and errors trying to setup a working sftp server for multiple groups with chrooted directory I decided to share what finally worked for me. I am a novice 2 months into Ubuntu so ...
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give an sftp user permission to modify files in all folders in /home

I have created a sftp user which is able to login with sftp to /home which then lists all the sites on the server. When I try and delete one of the files or overwrite one of the files I am told by my ...
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Why is this Nautilus script not working over SFTP?

I wrote the following script to use it in Nautilus. It merges files into folders. But when I try this for sftp://user@mynas/ it is not working. How can I fix the script to get it working via the ...