Re: [CentOS] SSH using Keys, no password and SFTP?

-- Jason On Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Devin Reade wrote: > Jason slackmoehrle.lists@gmail.com wrote: > > > I have setup (and it was so easy) using SSH with keys instead of password authentication. I want to turn password authentication off completely. > > > > What I dont understand is how SFTP would work them. I dont see any settings in my FTP clients to use SFTP without providing a password. > > > Don't confuse sftp with ftp. They're two different protcols, albiet with > similar purposes. > > If your users can log in with ssh using key pairs, then they can sftp and > scp with them, too. > > ftp, otoh, does not understand ssh key pairs so if you turn off password > auth there then regular users can't log in with that protocol at all. > > IMO though, the only kind of cleartext ftp that should be offered is > anonymous ftp anyway. ssh/sftp/scp have been out there long enough > that even windows users can use them now as long as you provide them > (or poitn them to) a suitable client. > > Devin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >