A sftp request  have to be met for a project. To setup a sftp ASAP in current environment , i found a linux server running CentOS and plan to deploy sftp server with OpenSSH. The detailed procedures are following:­

   1. Generate a pair of keys.public & private key for sftp user.  The public key will be saved a certain directory of sftp users just like /home/somebody/.ssh/authorized_keys and the private key will be copy to workstation where running sftp client.­

    (1).ssh-keygen -t rsa­

     (2)change id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys and save to .ssh directory which created under user home directory and have to grant sufficient privilege  just like chmod 600­

2. Modify sshd_config file to power sftp function­

    (1) enable public key authentication method­

     (2)disable password authentication method­Port 22

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Protocol 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
ServerKeyBits 768
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO
LoginGraceTime 600
PermitRootLogin yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
RhostsAuthentication no
IgnoreRhosts yes
HostbasedAuthentication no
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
MaxStartups 20
Subsystem       sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

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3. import private key for   client tool which support sftp (i.e flashxp 4.0)  and try to connect to sftp server. ­

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