Re: Odd sftp user name

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi John,

You say that the userid is 123450000000@ssh, and then you say you only 
want it to request 123450000000's password. Then you say Putty requests 
'ssh' password.

I don't understand.  Is 'ssh' part of the userid?  Or isn't it?  If it's 
not, then what is it, and why are you providing it in the userid field?

sftp typically tries to use @ to separate the userid from the hostname. 
 So you'd have something like this:

   sftp john@xxxxxxxxxxx

And that means it'd connect to example.com and sign in with userid john.


On 1/17/2012 3:51 PM, jmmckee flinthills.com wrote:
> I am trying to connect to a company using sftp.  They assigned me a
> twelve digit user id, which is followed by @ssh.  When I try to log
> in, using PuTTY, I get a request for ssh's password.
>
> If user id is 123450000000@ssh and site is ftp.xyz.com, how can I get
> the remote system to request 123450000000's password?  I have tried
> both ' and ".  Just tried \ in front of the nasty @.  Locked out,
> again.
>
> John McKee