I am able to access the remote site using a regular sftp session without any problems; and using the same credentials that I use for cURL.

sftp -F old user_at_10.20.30.40
Connecting to 10.20.30.40...
SSH Server supporting SFTP and SCP
Authenticated with partial success.
SFTPMonitor_at_10.20.30.40 password:
sftp> ls
SFTPMonitor
test
test_me

 
   Ebrahim Abu-Rashid
þ Senior System Admin
" Sterling Commerce
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-----Original Message-----
From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Dan Fandrich
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:07 PM
To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
Subject: Re: curl using SSH issues

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:07:27PM -0400, Abu-Rashid, Ebrahim wrote:
> I am trying to use cURL with ssh2 for sftp sessions; every time I try to
> execute the program I seem to get the error
>
>
>
> curl: (2) Failure initialising sftp session

Are you sure the remote server has sftp configured? Can you access the site
using a different sftp client?

>>> Dan

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