Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0

[Darren Tucker]

Norm Fredrick wrote:
> I installed OpenSSH_3.7p1 on 2 AIX 4.3.3 servers

You may want to consider using 3.7.1p2 instead.

[snip]
> % sftp localhost
> Connecting to localhost...
> norm at localhost's password:
> Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0
> Connection closed

Try running the server in debug mode, this may give some indication as to
why the channel open failed.

In one session, run (as root):
# /usr/local/sbin/sshd -ddd -p 2022

and in another, run:
$ sftp -o Port=2022 localhost

If there's nothing obvious, post the output of sshd to the list.

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