sftp server with speed throttling

[Andrei Kolu]

2010/3/21 Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com>:
> What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed
> throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in
> base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a
> custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather stick to GENERIC so
> I can use freebsd-update) which sounds like a bit too much
> configuration work or pass sftp traffic through PF and throttle it
> (ugly, would also affect ssh traffic).
>
> Are there any sftp servers with directly built-in functionality for
> this? I just would to be able to set limits for upload speed globally
> for the entire server and preferably to also be able to do speed
> settings on a per-user basis.
>
>

Only OpenSSH alternative I use sometimes is
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/ssh2-nox11/../ssh2/pkg-descr

security/ssh2-nox11

Not about throttling but about chrooting:
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:35:46 +0930
To: Philip Paeps <philip at paeps.cx>
From: Wincent Colaiuta <wincentcolaiuta at mac.com>

El Thursday, 15 August, 2002, a las 11:13 PM, Philip Paeps escribió:

> I'm in the process of setting up a form of fileserver, and I'd like for
> my
> users to be able to work only in their home directories, not anywhere
> else. I
> would like to use SSH for the connections, as opposed to FTP, but I
> don't want
> users to be able to log into an interactive shell (only SCP/SFTP) and I
> don't
> want them to 'escape' out of their home directories.

Use ssh2 from the ports collection:
cd /usr/ports/security/ssh2 && make install

In /usr/local/etc/ssh2/sshd2_config set the ChRootGroups and ChRootUsers
directives to chroot the group(s) and/or user(s) that are to have
ChRooted access.

Turn off the default ssh (OpenSSH) by setting in /etc/rc.conf:
sshd_enable="NO"

Start the new ssh:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sshd.sh start

When you create the user's account, make sure the shell is set to
/bin/nologin or something similar.

With this setup, they can sftp in and are chroot to the home dir, and
they can't get a shell when they connect via ssh.

In my opinion, OpenSSH should have this feature. We are told not to use
ftp because of clear-text passwords, so we have to use ssh/sftp, but
when we do that we can no longer chroot people to their home dirs! And
if we're not careful, we end up giving them a login shell. Using ssh2
from the ports gets around this limitation, but just check the licence
before you install to make sure that you qualify (otherwise it's not
free).

Cheers :-)
Wincent
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