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SFTP access in Plesk 12.5 for domain users

Not sure why this didn’t work out of the box, but after lots of googling determined that adding some lines to /etc/ssh/sshd_config would allow SFTP to work. Without this it would connect but drop, the client log looking like:

Started a shell/command
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Using SFTP protocol.
 Doing startup conversation with host.
 Type: SSH_FXP_INIT, Size: 5, Number: -1
 Server sent command exit status 1
 Disconnected: All channels closed

The fix was to add this :

Match User UserName
     AllowTCPForwarding no
     X11Forwarding no
     ForceCommand internal-sftp

Plesk documentation implies this is not needed, that it should just work. So maybe there’s something wrong somewhere else but not going to argue with success.

Doing this does break chrootd SSH access, but that’s OK for what I needed. Will have to return to this someday and understand the problem.

Saturday, April 1st, 2017 Linux, Plesk No Comments