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Is SFTP Disabled by default by providers ?
| Posted by highlightings, 11-28-2012, 09:56 AM |
| This is the reply I received from a reseller provider support
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Why would they disable SFTP ? Is this normal ?
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| Posted by NetworkPanda, 11-28-2012, 10:28 AM |
| SFTP works over SSH and most hosts have SSH disabled for security reasons. It is absolutely reasonable.
But why do you need to use SFTP instead of FTP for uploading files to your account? FTP works fine for this purpose.
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| Posted by kevincheri, 11-28-2012, 11:21 AM |
| Agree!.. most do not allow you SSH access due to security concerns and hence SFTP cannot work.
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| Posted by highlightings, 11-28-2012, 11:22 AM |
| Thank you. The reason is one of our customer is asking for it and Godaddy is supporting it on their shared linux hosting.
http://support.godaddy.com/help/arti...osting-account
So wanted to know if our provider is the only one disabling it.
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| Posted by TheJoker, 11-28-2012, 02:21 PM |
| HawkHost and Rochen allow SSH/SFTP on their reseller accounts. I see Hostgator allows SSH so I'm guessing they allow SFTP too. MDDHosting states they will allow upon request.
Last edited by TheJoker; 11-28-2012 at 02:25 PM.
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| Posted by DWS2006, 11-29-2012, 12:35 PM |
| It is important to note that proftpd supports sftp over the ftp daemon itself (via mod_sftp with no shell access). This is a very secure way of offering sftp to shared hosting clients.
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| Posted by TravisT-[SSS], 11-30-2012, 03:50 AM |
| We just require an ask so we can add an IP to the whitelist but other then that we have it enabled for clients.
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| Posted by CrocWeb, 11-30-2012, 05:14 AM |
| You simply need to find a host that would enable SSH access upon request for an account. Most should, some don't.
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| Posted by HostXNow_Chris, 11-30-2012, 05:36 AM |
| Correct. Just need to ask the host to provide custom SSH port number.
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