I’ve got a unique challenge.
I am trying to set up Open SSH for Windows for secure SFTP connections.
There are a few problems, though…
Using Bitvise Tunnelier, I get a GUI based SFTP client on a connect, but it also opens a SSH shell at the Windows prompt.
I want to suppress allowing SSH connections while allowing SFTP connections. I’m sure this must be possible? But I can’t seem to find a lot of information on this online (it might be that I can hardly figure out how to describe this, let alone do a search on it that will return meaningful results).
I don’t want to do this CLIENT side, mind you, I want the suppression of the SSH to happen server-side. There are security concerns with allowing terminal based command line connections to the server – but I can control those issues better in SFTP. I’ve looked at the /etc config files – I see how I would suppress the SFTP deamon from starting – it is dependent on the SSH deamon. But therefore, the SSH deamon *must* be running, it seems. So I want it (SSH) to run, just not to respond to an external connection attempt.
Is this possible?
Is there a better way to enable secure, encrypted communications to a Win32 box?
Running Linux is not an option. I’ve tried FreeNAS, but the limited server-side user and permissions on FreeNAS prevent this from being a viable solution for me.