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 at host.domain.com <mailto:user at 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.