Re: sFTP User Name - does it need to match user name on the server

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We use the sFTP key exchange system almost exclusively.

Confirming what Jack writes below plus . . .

We are running sFTP connections for many trading partners throughout the 
day on a given system.

Every partner has different requirements and so we employ a unique 
userid per partner.

When the CL driver script enters *IX world it lands in the 
/home/<userid> directory on the IFS.

From there we an manage unique .sh and .py scripts sculpted for each 
partner's requirements.

So, for us, it is important to have unique profile per each sFTP partner.

Regards,

Jerry

On 12/21/2023 4:21 AM, Jack Woehr via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> When SFTPing to a remote system, all that matters is that you know an
> account name at the remote end and you can either provide its password or
> have a public key installed on the remote. It doesn't care who you are to
> your local system.
>
> The public key on the remote site must correspond to a private key found
> either in the local user's ~/.ssh directory or pointed to by the
> appropriate command line switch passed to the sftp command.
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 21:11 Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I need to set up a sFTP file transfer.
> >
> > I have been provided a user name and password, the user is admin
> >
> > I used the ssh -T admin@<hostname> to add the site to the known hosts
> > file.
> >
> > Does the user profile name on the IBMi need to be the same or can I use a
> > user name of SFTPUSER or something similar with a maximum length of 8
> > characters ?
> >
> > As an example can I log in as SFTPUSER (or change the current active
> > profile to SFTPUSER) and then use sftp admin@<hostname>
> >
> > I thought this was fine but I just can't find an explicit answer.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Don