how to turn off ftp/sftp?
 

When I was messing about with samba and other protocols I managed to create a sftp file share and can not work out how to remove it, please can anyone help? Im sure its something simple but I can't even rember how I turned it on
Thanks

Howdy,

Which distro are you using?

Sftp is part of OpenSSH. If you turn of the ssh daemon (service), you
can turn of sftp. This is easy for me in Slackware: I would just
remove the executable permission from rc.sshd:

You probably have System V init instead, so snoop around in
/etc/init.d. When I say "snoop" I mean do it as a regular user so you
can avoid accidentally deleting something.

Joel

Sorry for got to say, is Fedora 6. If I do that will it interfere with samba?
Thanks

I suggest putting your distro in your signature, and in your profile, that way if you forget, you didn't really forget.

Wait for the opinion of a Fedora expert: I've never used a RedHat/Fedora system.

Joel

Not sure what you have messed up, but to turn off sshd in Fedora:

1. after booted, you can type the following, but it will start again next boot:
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd stop
you should see [ OK ] message. Do a
$ ps aux | grep sshd
to make sure process /usr/sbin/sshd is not there anymore.

2. If you want sshd not to start at boot, do the following:
$ chkconfig --level 235 sshd off
then do
$ ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d | grep sshd
to see if you can see the following:
K02sshd
("02" might be some numbers instead, important is you see the "K")
if you see the above, sshd will not start at next boot.

Just FYI, ftp is separate from sftp/ssh/scp which are also separate from Samba. IOW, you are talking about 3 different services here ....