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title: "SFTP"
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description: "SFTP"
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date: "2017-02-01"
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---
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<i class="fa fa-server"></i> SFTP
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SFTP is the [Secure (or SSH) File Transfer
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Protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol).
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It runs over SSH v2 and is standard with most modern SSH
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installations.
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Paths are specified as `remote:path`. If the path does not begin with
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a `/` it is relative to the home directory of the user. An empty path
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`remote:` refers to the user's home directory.
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Here is an example of making an SFTP configuration. First run
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rclone config
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This will guide you through an interactive setup process.
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```
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No remotes found - make a new one
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n) New remote
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s) Set configuration password
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q) Quit config
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n/s/q> n
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name> remote
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Type of storage to configure.
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Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
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1 / Amazon Drive
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\ "amazon cloud drive"
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2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
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\ "s3"
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3 / Backblaze B2
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\ "b2"
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4 / Dropbox
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\ "dropbox"
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5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
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\ "crypt"
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6 / FTP Connection
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\ "ftp"
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7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
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\ "google cloud storage"
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8 / Google Drive
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\ "drive"
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9 / Hubic
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\ "hubic"
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10 / Local Disk
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\ "local"
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11 / Microsoft OneDrive
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\ "onedrive"
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12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
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\ "swift"
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13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
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\ "sftp"
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14 / Yandex Disk
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\ "yandex"
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15 / http Connection
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\ "http"
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Storage> sftp
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SSH host to connect to
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Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
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1 / Connect to example.com
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\ "example.com"
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host> example.com
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SSH username, leave blank for current username, ncw
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user> sftpuser
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SSH port, leave blank to use default (22)
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port>
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SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
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y) Yes type in my own password
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g) Generate random password
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n) No leave this optional password blank
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y/g/n> n
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Path to unencrypted PEM-encoded private key file, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
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key_file>
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Remote config
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[remote]
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host = example.com
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user = sftpuser
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port =
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pass =
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key_file =
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y) Yes this is OK
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e) Edit this remote
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d) Delete this remote
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y/e/d> y
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```
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This remote is called `remote` and can now be used like this:
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See all directories in the home directory
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rclone lsd remote:
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Make a new directory
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rclone mkdir remote:path/to/directory
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List the contents of a directory
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rclone ls remote:path/to/directory
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Sync `/home/local/directory` to the remote directory, deleting any
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excess files in the directory.
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rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:directory
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### SSH Authentication ###
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The SFTP remote supports three authentication methods:
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* Password
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* Key file
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* ssh-agent
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Key files should be unencrypted PEM-encoded private key files. For
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instance `/home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa`.
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If you don't specify `pass` or `key_file` then rclone will attempt to
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contact an ssh-agent.
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If you set the `--sftp-ask-password` option, rclone will prompt for a
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password when needed and no password has been configured.
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### ssh-agent on macOS ###
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Note that there seem to be various problems with using an ssh-agent on
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macOS due to recent changes in the OS. The most effective work-around
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seems to be to start an ssh-agent in each session, eg
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eval `ssh-agent -s` && ssh-add -A
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And then at the end of the session
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eval `ssh-agent -k`
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These commands can be used in scripts of course.
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### Specific options ###
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Here are the command line options specific to this remote.
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#### --sftp-ask-password ####
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Ask for the SFTP password if needed when no password has been configured.
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### Modified time ###
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Modified times are stored on the server to 1 second precision.
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Modified times are used in syncing and are fully supported.
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Some SFTP servers disable setting/modifying the file modification time after
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upload (for example, certain configurations of ProFTPd with mod_sftp). If you
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are using one of these servers, you can set the option `set_modtime = false` in
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your RClone backend configuration to disable this behaviour.
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### Limitations ###
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SFTP supports checksums if the same login has shell access and `md5sum`
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or `sha1sum` as well as `echo` are in the remote's PATH.
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This remote check can be disabled by setting the configuration option
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`disable_hashcheck`. This may be required if you're connecting to SFTP servers
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which are not under your control, and to which the execution of remote commands
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is prohibited.
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The only ssh agent supported under Windows is Putty's pageant.
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The Go SSH library disables the use of the aes128-cbc cipher by
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default, due to security concerns. This can be re-enabled on a
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per-connection basis by setting the `use_insecure_cipher` setting in
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the configuration file to `true`. Further details on the insecurity of
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this cipher can be found [in this paper]
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(http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/SandPfinal.pdf).
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SFTP isn't supported under plan9 until [this
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issue](https://github.com/pkg/sftp/issues/156) is fixed.
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Note that since SFTP isn't HTTP based the following flags don't work
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with it: `--dump-headers`, `--dump-bodies`, `--dump-auth`
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Note that `--timeout` isn't supported (but `--contimeout` is).
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