Cpanel SFTP Issue

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Posted by kselva, 12-15-2009, 01:33 AM
Hai All, I have cpanel linux VPS in which I have implemented SFTP ( using SSH ) for security reasons and disabled pureftp . Now cpanel user can login into sftp but the users created using FTP Accounts in cpanel cannot login into server using SFTP , how can i solve this issue ... thanks in advance... Last edited by kselva; 12-15-2009 at 01:43 AM.
Posted by BTCentral - Ben, 12-15-2009, 04:43 AM
You will need to create SSH accounts for each user that needs to use SFTP. SFTP is in no way related to regular FTP. SFTP = SSH File Transfer Protocol. I must admit, I'm not even sure if this can be done via cPanel/WHM. While I use cPanel on a regular basis I have not used WHM in a few years.
Posted by kdmitchell, 12-15-2009, 07:53 PM
Correct. Since you disabled FTP, users need a SSH account (jailed) in order to use SFTP. You would do this in WHM, under "Manage Shell Access" and enabling jail shell.
Posted by oldunis, 12-15-2009, 08:06 PM
If security is your concern, why not enable SSL on pureftpd?
Posted by kselva, 12-16-2009, 07:57 AM
I have eanbled SFTP through ssh because of gamblour attack issue....