sftp only working for root

[Mikael Viklund]

Hello. I have a problem with sftp, when I run sftp from another host to the hp-ux machine it works fine. but when I try to login as another user it fails with this message in syslog:Oct 14 13:21:12 chastity sshd[14423]: error: subsystem: cannot stat /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server: Permission denied Oct 14 13:21:12 chastity sshd[14423]: subsystem request for sftp failed, subsystem not found As far as I can see the permisions are ok. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 176224 Sep 8 14:43 /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server Openssh is version SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.6.1p2and the os is:HP-UX chastity B.11.11 U 9000/800 841960611 unlimited-user license

[Mark Grant]

check the permissions on the directory that it's in too.

[john korterman]

Hi,
what does
# ls -ld d /usr/local/libexec
show?

regards,
John K.

[Mikael Viklund]

Duh, the libexec dir was only rx by root, fixing that helped some, but not I get 'Received message too long 459092539' instead :(

[john korterman]

Hi,
try and check this thread, which - despite the title - has something to do with your problem.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xe9c4d7d96cbad711900a0090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066133202999+28353475

regards,
John K.

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

This shows one of the oddities in sftp i.e. it actually needs ssh which sadly, needs the users shell. The message you are getting is probably because your .profile/.bashrc/whatever is outputting some text that is corrupting the protocol. You need to either take them out or at least put a test in the .profile tosee if you have a tty ("tty"" might be a good option here)

[Mikael Viklund]

Thank you all for the fast replys. I got ridth of the "message to long" by removing some output from my .tcshrc.

[T G Manikandan]

What shell you have for the user.
Make sure you have some login shell