[scponly] Filezilla: "Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect"

[Frappy John]

On 1/22/06, Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani at bl.mmtr.or.jp> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:44:42 -0500, Frappy John <frappyjohn at gmail.com>
> said:
>
> > I've just installed scponly 4.3 on my RHES 4.0 box.
> [...]
> > My server log shows:
> >
> > Jan 22 22:12:04 myserver sshd(pam_unix)[32327]: session opened for user
> > mytestuser by (uid=0)
>                  ^^^^^
> > Jan 22 22:12:04 myserver sshd(pam_unix)[32327]: session closed for user
> > mytestuser
> >
> > I'm clueless. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be
> appreciated.
>
> Perhaps, your sshd is not configured to permit root login?
>
> By the way, please be sure to use UID other than 0 for any users;
> the scponly does not allow login by UID == 0 as its implementation.
>
> -- rushani



Thanks for the prompt reply, rushani.

Apparently the uid=0 in the system log refers to the owner of the sshd
process, not the user connecting via ssh. (I tested this with a couple of
users to verify it.)

So I'm still looking for an explanation.

Thanks for the effort, however.

John
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