[scponly] scponly okay, scponlyc doesn't work and it gives no information

[Andrew Robinson]

Without the "//web" in the home directory, it does get path
authentication, but that is when I get the error:

C:\PuTTY>psftp testuser at ssh.bethanyefree.org
Using username "testuser".
Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect

The server is saying that sftp-server is being started (the log in the
message). I wanted to try to get that working before attempting
getting the "//" working, as it seems they are separate errors.

On 3/24/06, Kaleb Pederson <kpederson at mail.ewu.edu> wrote:
> > Changed passwd to:
> > testuser:x:1013:100::/home/testuser//web:/usr/local/sbin/scponlyc
> >
> > C:\PuTTY>psftp testuser at ssh.bethanyefree.org
> > Using username "testuser".
> > Fatal: Server sent disconnect message
> > type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
> > "Too many authentication failures for testuser"
>
> It looks like it isn't really making it past authentication.  You might try
> 'psftp -v' and see if that gives you anything else more useful.  If not, I
> would try from a Linux box (perhaps the server in question) turning up the
> debugging information (ssh -v[v][v]) until you have sufficient information.
> Also, once the password request is made (assuming no public-key auth), then
> you can strace the process on the server side and see what it's doing.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --Kaleb
>
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