Archive for April, 2017
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.