sftp on a Windows 2003 server

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 09/24/2009 01:07 PM, Dave M wrote:
> Larry,
> I installed the beeta version (scarey), and I can ssh into localhost.

Good!  That's a step forward at least.

Beta isn't as scary as you might think.  It's pretty close to what will be
released (soonish).

> Um, the question is, is there a way to test sftp, and is there a guide
> for  configuring public key authentication for sftp?
> I am going to try and figure out what files are relevant to my need and
> read them, but if you could point my in the right direction, I would be
> greatly appreciative.

You need to run 'ssh-user-config' for the user you plan to ssh/sftp in as.
This will create the keys you need.  You should then be able to ssh
into localhost using pubkey.  To do this from other machines requires
your public key in the remote machines ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.  Then
you should be able to pubkey ssh into your host from the remote
machine.  After that, you can try sftp.  Those are the high-level steps.

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