SCP connection closed

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Hello everyone,
Since last two weeks i am facing a new issue in SSH. whenever i am trying to add some more files on my VPS using SCP then it says connection closed. I tried almost everything like reinstalling SSH, enabling and disabling. But nothing works. In fresh install of Hestia it works only within 1st 10 min and after that it stop working.

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Hi @rabby

But, can you connect using ssh?

Show the output of these commands?

grep -Ev '^#|^$' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
iptables -S
ls -lR /srv/
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Out is so long. Please be specific what i need to look. Because everything else is working on my server except SCP.

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If SSH is working SCP should work too, maybe you mean SFTP?

grep -Ev '^#|^$' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
iptables -S
ls -la /srv/ftp/
ls -la /srv/jail/
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Whenever i am trying to do SCP file transfer i face this.

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Show the output of the commands (copy and paste the output, no screenshots please).

Do you access via ssh using root user and password?

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yes i access via SSH using root.

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Include /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf
LoginGraceTime 1m
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
UsePAM yes
X11Forwarding yes
PrintMotd no
DebianBanner no
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp-server
PermitRootLogin yes
HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
 
Match User sftp_dummy99,rabby,akkvc,coskot,grkvc,kodetree,lifeline,mukt,nashachudaokender,nashamuktipunjab,rahul_keyanntech,testing,grkvc_dev
    ChrootDirectory /srv/jail/%u
    X11Forwarding no
    AllowTCPForwarding no
    ForceCommand internal-sftp -d /home/%u
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Execute these commands and try again:

sed -i 's/internal-sftp-server/internal-sftp/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
systemctl restart ssh
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Yes, Great it works. i trying everything with chatGPT. How can i learn how to handle server any complete guide please share reference.

Thanks

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Great! :wink:

I’ve never actually read a complete guide on how to manage Linux. I’ve gone through tons of articles, specific how-tos for certain services, and lots of forum posts, but I’ve never used a guide that tries to cover everything. So I’m afraid I can’t really recommend one.

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Wasted so much time figuring this out, finally it works after sed

When are we release 1.9.4 - hestiacp/install/upgrade/versions/1.9.4.sh at 7acc8283fcd5b3d8de053e57fa766b18ad137f01 · hestiacp/hestiacp · GitHub

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I feel ya. didnt know this old thread and started another.

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Hey Boys and Girls.

I’ve also just come across this issue (clean install about a month ago, ubuntu 24.04) do we need to add a line to the install docs / getting started? Maybe a per distro errata? I assume this happens to everyone?

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Yes, it’s a bug.

If the error is happening now:

sed -i 's/internal-sftp-server/internal-sftp/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
systemctl restart ssh

After that, to fix it permanently:

cd /usr/local/hestia/bin/
mv v-add-sys-sftp-jail v-add-sys-sftp-jail.ori
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/b7b2f3b10cbfd5b727bb8cb835bc236bdfbc6660/bin/v-add-sys-sftp-jail -o v-add-sys-sftp-jail
chmod +x v-add-sys-sftp-jail

It’s a bug that should be fixed in next Hestia release.

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Hey @Sahsanu,

Ah, so the script that adds the sftp users is doing so with the wrong binary? This (and other) post was fairly easy to find so I guess not the end of the world.

When do we expect the next release?

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I’ve no idea.

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probaly next week.

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Awesome. Not much point adding a note to the docs then if it’s going to be fixed in the next week or so.

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