Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <9b83ffd9050907155754d21e1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:57:59 -0700 From: Jack Offerman To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: sftp "connection closed" In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050907172646.04743e18@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b83ffd905090709337e1bf8f2 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050907172646 DOT 04743e18 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j87Mw9Pj024950 On 9/7/05, Larry Hall wrote: > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > >I appreciate your help. > > I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and > see what you get from the logs there. Results from that are usually > more instructive. It started working again after I changed /etc/passwd. When I recreated the file by doing mkpasswd -l, I also hand-editted something. That is the last part of the line, the login shell. Originally it was bash, and I changed it to tcsh. Being a tcsh fan all my life, I've always hated when I had to type "tcsh" right after logging in on a ssh session because the login shell is bash. When I did mkpasswd, I thought it was a perfect time to change my login shell to tcsh. And I was happy with the result: tcsh running as a login shell. With tcsh as a login shell, however, sftp didn't work. With bash, it is working now. So I take it. J -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/