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Re: sftp access from ISP to home machine



* stan (stanb@awod.com) wrote:
> I've got ssh working on my home machine, and I've added sftp as a subsystem.
> 
> 
> Now when I try to run sfto from my ISP shell account I get prompted for a
> password. Unfortunately, I don't get prompted for a username. And since my
> user name on my home machine differs from that on the ISP's shell machine I
> seem to be stuck.
> 
> With ssh I can use the -l option to overide this. How can I make sftp work?
> 
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sftp user@somebox.somplace.root

Works for ftp as well :-)

Cheers,

Euan
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