Hi TJ,
Thank you so much for the quick response and providing the link to those
documents. From the documents it has the below sample configuration. I am
planning to use only password based authentication. In that case do I need
the parameters
SFTPHostKey , SFTPAuthorizedUserKeys , and SFTPCompression . In this
case how do I pass the username and password to SFTP via configuration. DO
I need to set the parameter SFTPAuthMethods also for this?
<IfModule mod_sftp.c>
<VirtualHost *a.b.c.d*>
SFTPEngine on
SFTPLog /etc/proftpd/sftp/sftp.log
# Configure the server to listen on the normal SSH2 port, port 22
Port 22
# Configure the RSA, DSA, and ECDSA host keys, using the same host key
# files that OpenSSH uses.
SFTPHostKey /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key
SFTPHostKey /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key
SFTPHostKey /etc/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
# Configure the file used for comparing authorized public keys of users.
SFTPAuthorizedUserKeys file:~/.sftp/authorized_keys
# Enable compression
SFTPCompression delayed
# Allow the same number of authentication attempts as OpenSSH.
#
# It is recommended that you explicitly configure MaxLoginAttempts
# for your SSH2/SFTP instance to be higher than the normal
# MaxLoginAttempts value for FTP, as there are more ways to authenticate
# using SSH2.
MaxLoginAttempts 6
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Thank you one again for your help.
Regards
Simon
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM TJ Saunders <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am new to proftpd . I would like to know how to enable sftp on
> > proftpd and do secure file transfer.
> > In the proftpd.conf file I can see the SFTPengine parameter. If I make
> > it ON will sftp work?
>
> First, you need to make sure your installed ProFTPD has the mod_sftp
> module installed/included; you can see this via `proftpd -l`, or `proftpd
> -V`.
>
> Once you know that mod_sftp is present/enabled, you need to configure an
> SFTP <VirtualHost>. Note that using "SFTPEngine on" is not enough;
> mod_sftp requires other settings as well. See the "Example Configuration"
> section of the mod_sftp docs:
> http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html
>
> Hope this helps,
> TJ
>
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