Jon Nelson on 2 Nov 2004 20:33:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] SSH works fine, SFTP refuses to connect


Aaron Crosman said:
> I have a problem that as far as I can tell only effects 1 user on my
> Linux web server.
>
> They cannot connect with SFTP (they use FileZilla, but I've been able to
> reproduce the problem with other SFTP clients).  I can able to connect
> with Putty for a regular SSH session, but FileZilla wont connect.  In
> FileZilla there are no error messages, just seems to hang (doesn't
> actually hang, but it's waiting for something).  With CyberDuck (OS X
> SFTP Client) I get the following message:
> IO Error: Failed to read messages: The message store has reached EOF.
>
> Anyone have suggestions about how this might have happened, and what I
> should do to resolve it?  All my other users (at least the 2 or 3 I
> tested quickly) don't seem to have any problems with either SSH or SFTP.

Maybe it's a mixture of SSH1 and SSH2 protocols.  SFTP is implemented
differently in each.

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