$Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ SFTP-SERVER 8

### NAME

sftp-server - SFTP server subsystem

### SYNOPSIS

sftp-server [-f log_facility] [-l log_level]

### DESCRIPTION

sftp-server is a program that speaks the server side of SFTP protocol to stdout and expects client requests from stdin. sftp-server is not intended to be called directly, but from sshd(8) using the Subsystem option.

Command-line flags to sftp-server should be specified in the Subsystem declaration. See sshd_config(5) for more information.

Valid options are:

-f log_facility
  Specifies the facility code that is used when logging messages from . The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7. The default is AUTH.

-l log_level
  Specifies which messages will be logged by . The possible values are: QUIET, FATAL, ERROR, INFO, VERBOSE, DEBUG, DEBUG1, DEBUG2, and DEBUG3. INFO and VERBOSE log transactions that sftp-server performs on behalf of the client. DEBUG and DEBUG1 are equivalent. DEBUG2 and DEBUG3 each specify higher levels of debugging output. The default is ERROR.

### SEE ALSO

sftp(1), ssh(1), sshd_config(5), sshd(8)

### HISTORY

sftp-server first appeared in OpenBSD2.8.

### AUTHORS

Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>