SFTP not working

Question

I have a CentOS server where I have installed the vsftpd service, however I am getting the error

bash: sftp: command not found

Even the which sftp command can't find this service.

Detailed steps below :

As root:

yum install vsftpd
Total download size: 139 k  
Is this ok [y/N]: **y**

Configure:

vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Change anonymous_enable=YES to anonymous_enable=NO

Add userlist_deny=NO after userlist_enable

Add allowed users:

vi /etc/vsftpd/user_list

Replace contents with:

vsftpd userlist
userlist_deny=NO so only allow users in this file
user

Turn on Vsftpd service

chkconfig vsftpd on

Start the service

service vsftpd start

Can someone help figuring out what I'm doing wrong ?

Answer 1

sftp binary is provided by the openssh-clients package. Install that before:

yum install openssh-clients

then you can run sftp.

Answer 2

Assuming the vsftpd daemon is now running and can get through any firewall you have, you need to use an ftp client to connect to the server.

yum install ftp
ftp x.x.x.x <-- IP address of server

That will show that it is working. Remotely you will need a client such as Filezilla.