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Re: sftp "connection closed"
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Jack Offerman <jofferman at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:31:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: sftp "connection closed"
- References: <9b83ffd905090709337e1bf8f2@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin 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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