Re: sFTP User Name - does it need to match user name on the server -- MIDRANGE-L

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When SFTPing to a remote system, all that matters is that you know an
account name at the remote end and you can either provide its password or
have a public key installed on the remote. It doesn't care who you are to
your local system.

The public key on the remote site must correspond to a private key found
either in the local user's ~/.ssh directory or pointed to by the
appropriate command line switch passed to the sftp command.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 21:11 Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I need to set up a sFTP file transfer.

I have been provided a user name and password, the user is admin

I used the ssh -T admin@<hostname> to add the site to the known hosts
file.

Does the user profile name on the IBMi need to be the same or can I use a
user name of SFTPUSER or something similar with a maximum length of 8
characters ?

As an example can I log in as SFTPUSER (or change the current active
profile to SFTPUSER) and then use sftp admin@<hostname>

I thought this was fine but I just can't find an explicit answer.

Thank you

Don

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