Howto log multiple sftpd instances with their chroot shared via NFS

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Sep 30 12:40:25 AEST 2021


Small clarification:

Hildegard Meier wrote:
> ps auxww |grep sftp
> root      4192  0.0  0.1  72304  6512 ?        Ss   11:01   0:00 /usr/sbin/sftpd -D -f /etc/sftpd/sftpd_config
> root      4590  0.2  0.1  74736  6632 ?        Ss   11:05   0:00 sftpd: sftp_nagios [priv]
> sftp_na+  4592  0.0  0.0  74736  3432 ?        S    11:05   0:00 sftpd: sftp_nagios at notty
> sftp_na+  4593  0.0  0.0  74736  3108 ?        Ss   11:05   0:00 sftpd: sftp_nagios at internal-sftp

4192 /usr/sbin/sftpd is likely unrelated to OpenSSH.
I guess that this is a TLS FTP server.
Try  ps fax  to see process relationships.

The "sftpd:" prefix for the sshd processes may be related to SELinux;
nothing in OpenSSH is called sftpd, except the "sftpd_t" SELinux context.


//Peter


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