SSH and SFTP settings

[time4e]

I have configured sshd on FreeBSD 9.1 to use private/public keys for authentication and it works without issue using any SSH clients. However when using an SFTP client such as Cyberduck I am not required to use SSH keys, it logs me in with just the username/password. I was under the impression that SFTP used the same settings as sshd_config.

This is my current setting for SFTP within sshd_config:

# override default of no subsystems
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server

How do I force SFTP clients to use the same SSH keys as SSH?

Thanks,
-Tim

 

[fonz]

How do I force SFTP clients to use the same SSH keys as SSH?

Does something along the lines of the following (adjust as you see fit) help:

Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/sftp-server
   PubkeyAuthentication              yes
   PasswordAuthentication            no
   ChallengeResponseAuthentication   no

 

[time4e]

@fonz,

Thanks for your reply, it worked!

-tim