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ahuacatlan
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 Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:42 pm Post subject: sftp: subsystem request failed on channel 0 |
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Hi,
A few weeks ago, my sftp connection abruptly stopped working. I haven't made any system changes. In desktop sftp clients I get worthless errors, so I tried using sftp in the command line:
| Code: | ~ $ sftp user@domain.org
Connecting to domain.org...
user@domain.org's password:
subsystem request failed on channel 0
Connection closed
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SSH works fine. |
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causality
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Joined: 03 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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In your /etc/ssh/sshd_config (not ssh_config) file, you probably have a line like this:
| Code: | | Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server |
If so, it's the cause of this error message. That's especially true if your sftp user is logging into a chrooted environment, where "/usr/lib" probably does not exist. My own sftp server is configured this way.
However, SSHD has the sftp functionality built-in and does not need to execute an external "helper" program like that. So, if you have a line like the above, it can be fixed by changing it to:
| Code: | | Subsystem sftp internal-sftp |
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