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nilven

winscp

Hi, I want to share my solution because I'm also searching several time for a workaround. I'm using CentOS7 right now and try to get connetion via WinSCP (Pubkey Auth).

sshd_config 

 ..

    RSAAuthentication yes

    PubkeyAuthentication yes

    AuthorizedKeysFile   .ssh/authorized_keys

    PasswordAuthentication no

    UsePAM yes

    ..



@CentOS
visudo - add following 2 entrys 

 username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/su

    Defaults:username !requiretty


WinSCP settings:

Disable keyboard-interactive @ SSH authentication settings solves the problem for me.
Shell command in SCP-settings: sudo su -
patrick73

I have the same problem (also with Ubuntu Linux 12.04.2 ).
my log : 
sshd[34150]: Accepted password for myusername from 100.000.000.001 port 44253 ssh2

sshd[34150]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user myusername by (uid=0)

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [myusername]

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [myusername]

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed

sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [myusername]

sudo:  myusername : 3 incorrect password attempts ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/myusername ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

sshd[34150]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user myusername


in sudoers (with visudo) because there isnot "requiretty" option, i have try to add this:
Defaults:myusername!requiretty

and also add this line :
myusername ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server

but dont work too!
In this ubuntu version, root isnt activated by default (for security raisons) so i prefer not active it...

Can you help me ?
martin

Re: Ubunut sudo su Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host

How do you "set sudo"?
Did you check this guide?
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su

Anyway, you should check the server's log.
Torwart91

Ubunut sudo su Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host

Hi,

I have a issue with my Winscp. If I login without using sudo it working fine.
But if i set sudo I get the Error: 

Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?


I'am using Ubunutu 12.04.2.

Thank for help!

(I hope you understand everything I wrote, sorry for my english ;) )

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