Re: sftp "connection closed"

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look?
> 
>Both were working before. But I realized that I needed to fix
>/etc/passwd and /etc/group
>for another reason, so I did mkpasswd and mkgroup. Then did
>ssh-host-config again.
> 
>With that done, now I am happy to see the ssh user finally become the same user
>as the console user. They were different before. On the flip side,
>though, sftp doesn't
>work anymore. I can do "ssh host" just fine.
> 
>I appreciate your help.

I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and 
see what you get from the logs there.  Results from that are usually 
more instructive. 


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