Author: Sahil Suri

Introduction In one of our previous articles we demonstrated how to setup chrooted sftp accounts. You may have certain application users which need to connect to the sftp server to transfer files in an automated manner without manual intervention. An enterprise infrastructure may comprise of many scripts as well which might need to transfer files to the sftp server in an automated fashion without having the need to enter credentials. Configuration of password less authentication for chrooted sftp user accounts is similar to that of ssh user accounts but involves an additional step. In this article we will demonstrate how to setup passwordless authentication for a chrooted sftp user account. In order to make this post easy to follow for our readers and maintain continuity we will setup passwordless sftp authentication for the chrooted sftp user named sahil which we created in our earlier article where we explained the setting up of chrooted sftp users. Step 1: Ensure destination user credentials are working Before we setup passwordless authentication let’s first try to login to the server as the user sahil with it’s password to make sure that the user account is working and has been setup correctly. [root@linuxnix ~]# sftp sahil@linuxnix Connecting to linuxnix... sahil@linuxnix's password: sftp> ls sftp> pwd Remote working directory: /myhome sftp> quit [root@linuxnix ~]# Step 2: Setup ssh keys for the source user For the purpose...