Re: [CentOS] SFTP error (perhaps due not to using passive mode?)

Rogelio Bastardo wrote:

I'm getting a weird error when I try to sFTP on a CentOS box (which I don't have root access).

when I run:

sftp -oPort=990 user@host.domain.com mailto:user@host.domain.com

I get the following error, which I suspect is a result of not being in "passive mode" (which works when I use Filezilla on Windows)

Connecting to host.domain.com http://host.domain.com ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

Any suggestions?

passive vs active or port mode is strictly a old school FTP thing, it has nothing to do with sftp which is part of the ssh protocol.

are you running a ssh server on port 990? it normally runs on port 22.