misc/86759: Unable to initialise sftp; could not connect

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR conf/86759; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/86759: Unable to initialise sftp; could not connect
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:42:43 -0400

 On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:36:38PM +0000, vittorio wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         86759
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       Unable to initialise sftp; could not connect
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 30 13:40:19 GMT 2005
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     vittorio
 > >Release:        Releng 5_4
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD vicbsd.grtn 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
 >    
 > >Description:
 >  Trying to connect with a client to an sshd server using sftpd the client  fails connection invariably complaining:
 > ....
 > sftp-server: Command not found.
 > Fatal: unable to initialise SFTP: could not connect
 > .......
 > 
 > Instead ssh, scp work fine
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Reconnecting via sftpd
 > >Fix:
 >  The last line of the boxed file /etc/ssh/sshd_config says:
 > subsystem   sftp   /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server  
 
 No it doesn't, at least in the openssh installed by FreeBSD.  Did you
 install openssh yourself or something?
 
 Kris