Able to connect to server via ssh but not via sftp (bash -> zsh)

pklein

10/10/23, 11:41 AM

OS: Ubuntu 20.04

Hello everyone,

I am able to connect to a remote machine via my terminal:

ssh remote_name

Nonetheless I cannot connect via sftp (thus not able to use Nautilus to access my remote files).

sftp remote_name

The remote name is stored in my .ssh/config file like this:

Host remote_name
        HostName remote_adress
        User user_name

The authentification is done via a keyfile: my .ssh/id_rsa.pub key is stored in my remote machine at .ssh/authorized_keys.

[EDIT] I realized the issue appeared after I tried to change my "default" shell on my remote machine. Unfortunately, this is a shared server so I cannot set my default shell using chsh... So I'm just calling zsh at the end of my .bashrc.

That is the cause of my problme as suggested by this post: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/364574

I would like to keep using zsh on my remote machine, do you have any suggestion to make sftp connection work ?

Thanks for your help !

Paul

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terdon

10/10/23, 1:55 PM

Please [edit] your question and tell us how you authenticate to the remote server. Password? Keyfile? Something else? Is that set in your `~/.ssh/config`? Can you show us the relevant lines (change IPs or other sensitive information but make sure they are consistent so we can understand)?

pklein

10/12/23, 7:53 AM

thanks for your suggestions @terdon, I edited my original post. Let me know is you need anything else :)

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pklein

10/20/23, 8:59 AM

A friend of mine suggested me a solution:

In my remote .bashrc, instead of direclty calling zsh at the end, I restrict the call to zsh with this condition:

if [ "$SSH_TTY" ]
then
   zsh
fi

Now I can ssh (and I have zsh as my remote terminal), and sftp connection works too !

Hope this will help others :)

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