Is there a point to SSHD and VSFTPD if I only want SFTP?

Meson · 03-10-2008, 02:56 PM

For fun/convenience I am running SSHD and VSFTPD. Is this pointless?

I just read that I can connected via SFTP to SSHD. So do I really need to have an FTP server if I only want secure file transfers and want to explicitly disable unsecured connections?

acid_kewpie · 03-10-2008, 03:00 PM

well yes, vsftpd and sftp have nothing in common whatsoever, it's all down to ssh.

Wim Sturkenboom · 03-10-2008, 10:31 PM

I'm running your setup as well. My reason is that it is quite easy to jail users to their homedirectory using VSFTPD while it's not so easy with SFTP.

Meson · 03-11-2008, 12:56 AM

According to the latest sshd_config(5) man page, there is indeed a ChrootDirectory option: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.c...penBSD+Current

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and we don't have it though. Maybe it will be available with Hardy.