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# 1  
Old 06-05-2012
Able to scp/ssh to AIX 6.1 machine, unable to sftp to it
Hello, I am trying to figure out why I cannot sftp onto our aix6.1 machine. I can ssh/scp onto it, and sftp outbound seems to work properly, but I can't sftp onto it.
Code:
[root@aix71: /]# sftp aix61
Connecting to aix61...
root@aix61's password:
Connection closed
[root@aix71: /]#

This machine appears to have the pware version of sshd installed, if that makes a difference:
Code:
[root@aix61: /opt/pware64/etc]$ps -ef |grep sshd
    root 5439500       1   0   Feb 13      -  0:00 /opt/pware64/sbin/sshd

I guess this is the reason I have two similar directories? /etc/ssh:
Code:
[root@aix61: /etc/ssh]$ls
moduli                ssh_host_dsa_key      ssh_host_key          ssh_host_rsa_key      ssh_prng_cmds
ssh_config            ssh_host_dsa_key.pub  ssh_host_key.pub      ssh_host_rsa_key.pub  sshd_config

And /opt/pware64/etc:
Code:
[root@aix61: /opt/pware64/etc]$ls
ssh_host_dsa_key        ssh_host_ecdsa_key      ssh_host_key            ssh_host_rsa_key        sshd
ssh_host_dsa_key.pub    ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub  ssh_host_key.pub        ssh_host_rsa_key.pub    sshd_config

I can provide the contents of either sshd_config file if that will help. Thank you in advance.
# 2  
Old 06-05-2012
Do you have a securified ftpd installed? FTP is a client-server protocol and it needs a running ftpd daemon on the server side to work. As far as i can see in your provided output only the sshd is running, not the sftpd. I don't know if "pware sshd" (which i don't know) can act as such - probably it can't.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 3  
Old 06-06-2012
the sftp daemon does not run all the time, when sftp connection is made, sshd starts sftpd, under the user that logs in

common issue:

in sshd_config check the path for sftp:

Code:
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/sbin/sftp-server

for example

I would uninstall the pware ssh server, since it's not necessary any more, and use the standard aix ssh server, so you can get patches and updates for it with tl upgrades
Last edited by funksen; 06-06-2012 at 06:13 AM..
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