sftp failed on channel 0

[Kevin Steves]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Ramesh Dharma wrote:
:I just recently installed OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 on a HP-UX box.
:The ssh works fine but the sftp is not.
:There is a firewall in between both the machine.
:Only SSH port is allowed from the source host to the destination machine.
:ssh works fine across the firewall.
:Below is the log.
:Thanks in advance .
:
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
:<ixos2:/home/smorrx> sftp spdns1
:Connecting to spdns1...
:smorrx at spdns1's password:
:Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0
:Connection closed
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

there is no subsystem sftp configured on the server.

[stevesk at anchor ssh]$ ssh -s jenny foo
Request for subsystem 'foo' failed on channel 0