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Operating Systems AIX Automate SFTP UNIX to Windows Post 302314215 by zTodd on Thursday 7th of May 2009 05:35:37 PM
Old 05-07-2009
I had a project where I needed to automate retrieving files from a vendor, so I used ssh-keygen and gave the vendor the public key from that, and it worked fine.

But if I need to automate sending files using SFTP, would I still generate the key pair from the server that I'm sending from? From what I've learned about PGP encryption, it's always the side receiving the file that has to provide their public key to the side sending the file. Is SSH key encryption different than PGP key encryption?

How does SSH key encryption and SFTP work for sending files? Does it use the private key to encrypt the file, and then then the receiver uses the public key to decrypt the file? That's opposite of how PGP works from what I understand, but maybe SSH just doesn't work the same as PGP.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sftp-server

SFTP-SERVER(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SFTP-SERVER(8)

NAME

     sftp-server -- SFTP server subsystem

SYNOPSIS

     sftp-server [-ehR] [-f log_facility] [-l log_level] [-u umask]

DESCRIPTION

     sftp-server is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol to stdout and expects client requests from stdin.  sftp-server is not
     intended to be called directly, but from sshd(8) using the Subsystem option.

     Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsystem declaration.  See sshd_config(5) for more information.

     Valid options are:

     -e      Causes sftp-server to print logging information to stderr instead of syslog for debugging.

     -f log_facility
	     Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from sftp-server.  The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH,
	     LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.  The default is AUTH.

     -h      Displays sftp-server usage information.

     -l log_level
	     Specifies which messages will be logged by sftp-server.  The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1,
	     DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.  INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that sftp-server performs on behalf of the client.	DEBUG and DEBUG1 are
	     equivalent.  DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.  The default is ERROR.

     -R      Places this instance of sftp-server into a read-only mode.  Attempts to open files for writing, as well as other operations that
	     change the state of the filesystem, will be denied.

     -u umask
	     Sets an explicit umask(2) to be applied to newly-created files and directories, instead of the user's default mask.

     For logging to work, sftp-server must be able to access /dev/log.	Use of sftp-server in a chroot configuration therefore requires that
     syslogd(8) establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.

SEE ALSO

     sftp(1), ssh(1), sshd_config(5), sshd(8)

     T. Ylonen and S. Lehtinen, SSH File Transfer Protocol, draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-00.txt, January 2001, work in progress material.

HISTORY

     sftp-server first appeared in OpenBSD 2.8.

AUTHORS

     Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>

BSD
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