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Asked: 2026-05-12T09:19:20+00:00

How can we verify that SFTP access has been granted on a server, without

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How can we verify that SFTP access has been granted on a server, without installing any software/tools?

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    Most servers have curl and scp installed, which you can use to log into an SFTP server. To test if your credentials work using curl, you could do this:

    $ curl -u username sftp://example.org/
Enter host password for user 'username':

    Enter your password and if it works you’ll get a listing of files (like ls -al), if it doesn’t work you’ll get an error like this:

    curl: (67) Authentication failure

    You could also try using scp:

    $ scp username@example.org:testing .
Password:
scp: testing: No such file or directory

    This verifies that you that you were able to log in, but it couldn’t find the testing file. If you weren’t able to log in you’d get a message like this:

    Permission denied, please try again.
Received disconnect from example.org: 2: ...error message...
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