SFTP error “Received message too long”

Question

I recently tried to using sftp to access my linux box where I implement a simple shell of my own. And I set the users except root to use mine shell in default(by editing /et

Answer 1

Configure your server to use the internal sftp server adding the following directive to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

That way, it will not use the user shell to launch the sftp server program.