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  3. January 2012

Re: Odd sftp user name

hi John,

You say that the userid is 123450000000@ssh, and then you say you only want it to request 123450000000's password. Then you say Putty requests 'ssh' password.

I don't understand. Is 'ssh' part of the userid? Or isn't it? If it's not, then what is it, and why are you providing it in the userid field?

sftp typically tries to use @ to separate the userid from the hostname. So you'd have something like this:

sftp john@xxxxxxxxxxx

And that means it'd connect to example.com and sign in with userid john.


On 1/17/2012 3:51 PM, jmmckee flinthills.com wrote:
I am trying to connect to a company using sftp. They assigned me a
twelve digit user id, which is followed by @ssh. When I try to log
in, using PuTTY, I get a request for ssh's password.

If user id is 123450000000@ssh and site is ftp.xyz.com, how can I get
the remote system to request 123450000000's password? I have tried
both ' and ". Just tried \ in front of the nasty @. Locked out,
again.

John McKee


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