Install And Configure SFTP Kodekloud

 

Question:

Some of the developers from Nautilus project team have asked for SFTP access to at least one of the app server in Stratos DC . After going through the requirements system admins team has decided to configure SFTP server on App Server 3 server in Stratos Datacenter . Please configure it as per below given instructions:

a. Create an SFTP user ravi and set its password to 8FmzjvFU6S .

b. Password authentication should be enabled for this user.

c. Set its ChrootDirectory to /var/www/app .

d. SFTP user should only be allowed to make SFTP connections.

 

Solution: Login to mentioned server in question

ssh banner@stapp03

Then Login as root

sudo su

Then add user and password

useradd ravi

passwd ravi

Next create mentioned directory and make the new user owner of that directory

mkdir -p /var/www/app

chown ravi:ravi /var/www/app

Also make root as the owner  and take permissions

chown root:root /var/www

chmod -R 755 /var/www

chmod -R 755 /var/www/app

chown -R ravi /var/www/app

chown -R root /var/www/app

chown -R root /var/www/

chmod -R 755 /var/www/

Now  edit the sshd_config file as follows

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

 

Restart sshd and test

systemctl restart sshd

sftp ravi@localhost

ssh ravi@stapp03

 

 

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