John McKelvey wrote on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:27:55 -0400:
The catch is that I can not connect to the box using SSH
That's obviously not true or just half of the story. Did you actually try *sshing* in? Your title mentions sftp, not ssh. So, what software are you using to connect? I would normally recommend using SCP (and not sftp) with WinSCP. If you do that you can have the sftp subsystem of OpenSSH shut off.
Kai