Disable SFTP

[codegirl42]

How can we disable the SFTP for our users when using FTP without disabling any other security features in shell?

[webignition]

SFTP is really just FTP-like behaviour through an SSH connection, so you can't really take away SFTP features without revoking shell access.

May I ask why you want to remove SFTP access?

[codegirl42]

I've finally gotten all of my users used to using WS_FTP in order to access their sites..

now i get complaints because people dont know how to activate SFTP in WS_FTP in order to upload files....

[chirpy]

Probably more info over at openssh.org, however, commenting out the following line from /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting sshd may well do it:

Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

[neo4242002]

Well.. this came in nice time... I have been seeking the possibility of using SFTP or FTP over SSL with my cpanel box.

Guys.. can you tell me how do I create a SFTP account with cpanel and how do I configure my SmartFTP client?

In fact I did not even know cpanel has SFTP capabilities

[xidica]

I think you may be a bit confused. SFTP is a secure form of file transfer which is integrated with the openssh package. FTP using SSL, however, is a different story. If you want to use FTP with SSL then you'll need to consult the documentation for pure-ftpd or proftpd(or whatever ftp daemon you're using). And cPanel itself doesn't necessarily have integrated SFTP capabilities, basically any UNIX box with SSH has that capability.