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26.Dd January 4, 2013
27.Dt SFTP-SERVER 8
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm sftp-server
31.Nd SFTP server subsystem
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm sftp-server
34.Op Fl ehR
35.Op Fl d Ar start_directory
36.Op Fl f Ar log_facility
37.Op Fl l Ar log_level
38.Op Fl u Ar umask
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40.Nm
41is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol
42to stdout and expects client requests from stdin.
43.Nm
44is not intended to be called directly, but from
45.Xr sshd 8
46using the
47.Cm Subsystem
48option.
49.Pp
50Command-line flags to
51.Nm
52should be specified in the
53.Cm Subsystem
54declaration.
55See
56.Xr sshd_config 5
57for more information.
58.Pp
59Valid options are:
60.Bl -tag -width Ds
61.It Fl d Ar start_directory
62specifies an alternate starting directory for users.
63The pathname may contain the following tokens that are expanded at runtime:
64%% is replaced by a literal '%',
65%h is replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated,
66and %u is replaced by the username of that user.
67The default is to use the user's home directory.
68This option is useful in conjunction with the
69.Xr sshd_config 5
70.Cm ChrootDirectory
71option.
72.It Fl e
73Causes
74.Nm
75to print logging information to stderr instead of syslog for debugging.
76.It Fl f Ar log_facility
77Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from
78.Nm .
79The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2,
80LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.
81The default is AUTH.
82.It Fl h
83Displays
84.Nm
85usage information.
86.It Fl l Ar log_level
87Specifies which messages will be logged by
88.Nm .
89The possible values are:
90QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3.
91INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that
92.Nm
93performs on behalf of the client.
94DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent.
95DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output.
96The default is ERROR.
97.It Fl R
98Places this instance of
99.Nm
100into a read-only mode.
101Attempts to open files for writing, as well as other operations that change
102the state of the filesystem, will be denied.
103.It Fl u Ar umask
104Sets an explicit
105.Xr umask 2
106to be applied to newly-created files and directories, instead of the
107user's default mask.
108.El
109.Pp
110For logging to work,
111.Nm
112must be able to access
113.Pa /dev/log .
114Use of
115.Nm
116in a chroot configuration therefore requires that
117.Xr syslogd 8
118establish a logging socket inside the chroot directory.
119.Sh SEE ALSO
120.Xr sftp 1 ,
121.Xr ssh 1 ,
122.Xr sshd_config 5 ,
123.Xr sshd 8
124.Rs
125.%A T. Ylonen
126.%A S. Lehtinen
127.%T "SSH File Transfer Protocol"
128.%N draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-00.txt
129.%D January 2001
130.%O work in progress material
131.Re
132.Sh HISTORY
133.Nm
134first appeared in
135.Ox 2.8 .
136.Sh AUTHORS
137.An Markus Friedl Aq markus@openbsd.org
138