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Old 10-15-2010
sftp problem with ftponly shell
Solaris (10 if it matters)

We can connect from a remote client successfully to our server and use ftp without issue for an account with ftponly shell

With public/private keys, we can also connect passwordless to a server ftponly account and use sftp

However, if we try to connect to the using sftp on the client and enter the password (ie without public/private keys) , although it appears to connect nothing seems to work - the client side freezes and it's not possible to do anything useful. Doing the same thing but to a ksh account works fine, but leaves a huge security hole!

I've heard rumours that there's a known issue with sftp/ftponly but can't find any details. Can anyone help?

Jerry
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Old 10-15-2010
What are the (error) messages in syslog?
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Old 10-15-2010
can you check usePAM in sshd_config?. Also if you don't want it to prompt you a password change StricModes to "yes"
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Old 10-15-2010
Neo - nothing obvious on client or server in /var/adm/messages!

erick_tuk - I don't have privileges to see the config, so I'll try and get my SAs to take a look. What exactly are you expecting to see, and what do you think is needed?

Jerry
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