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    From Wayne Harris@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 9 15:47:35 2021
    I tried to do this with panubo/sshd available in Docker Hub. To make
    that SSHd run on port 22, I had to resort to specifying my own
    sshd_config. When I did that, the software didn't work. I documented
    that at

    https://github.com/panubo/docker-sshd/issues/73

    Then I tried other SSHd images and they worked well with my sshd_config,
    but it seems these other images did not have support for PAM ---
    ``usePAM yes'' made sshd say it was not a supported option. I don't
    know if that was the reason I couldn't use RSA keys to log in. Password authentication worked just fine when I tried, so everything worked,
    except for using private keys to log in, which is what I needed.

    Now I'm thinking I should be just running a very simple server. All I
    want is SFTP (not shell accesss), so any simple server that supports rsa
    keys and provides SFTP is good enough for me. If there's always a
    Docker image out there, even better.

    Any recommendations? Thank you!

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  • From Wayne Harris@21:1/5 to Wayne Harris on Mon Aug 9 18:10:13 2021
    Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> writes:

    I tried to do this with panubo/sshd available in Docker Hub. To make
    that SSHd run on port 22, I had to resort to specifying my own
    sshd_config. When I did that, the software didn't work. I documented
    that at

    https://github.com/panubo/docker-sshd/issues/73

    Then I tried other SSHd images and they worked well with my sshd_config,
    but it seems these other images did not have support for PAM ---
    ``usePAM yes'' made sshd say it was not a supported option. I don't
    know if that was the reason I couldn't use RSA keys to log in. Password authentication worked just fine when I tried, so everything worked,
    except for using private keys to log in, which is what I needed.

    Now I'm thinking I should be just running a very simple server. All I
    want is SFTP (not shell accesss), so any simple server that supports rsa
    keys and provides SFTP is good enough for me. If there's always a
    Docker image out there, even better.

    Any recommendations? Thank you!

    By the way, I just noticed that SFTP is not the same thing as FTPS.
    What I do need is SFTP, using the SSH protocol. My users are using
    WinSCP with the SFTP protocol, so I must stick to that. Is there any alternatives other than SSHd? Thank you.

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  • From Kaz Kylheku@21:1/5 to Wayne Harris on Tue Aug 10 02:39:47 2021
    On 2021-08-09, Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> wrote:
    By the way, I just noticed that SFTP is not the same thing as FTPS.

    Moreover FTPS cannot plausibly be the French SFTP, because that
    would likely be something like PTSF: "protocole pour le transfert
    sécurisé de fichiers".

    :)


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  • From Wayne Harris@21:1/5 to Kaz Kylheku on Sat Aug 14 23:55:59 2021
    Kaz Kylheku <563-365-8930@kylheku.com> writes:

    On 2021-08-09, Wayne Harris <wharris1@protonmail.com> wrote:
    By the way, I just noticed that SFTP is not the same thing as FTPS.

    Moreover FTPS cannot plausibly be the French SFTP, because that
    would likely be something like PTSF: "protocole pour le transfert sécurisé de fichiers".

    :)

    Glad we our French figured out here. :-D

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