here’s something strange… if you want to set up sftp on your machine, you need to make sure that the path to the sftp server is included in the user’s default path who is logging in using sftp.
An old article on redhat forums gave me some hints on where to start, but didn’t really answer things very well. Adding
/local/ssh2/bin/
to my path finally did the trick.
Am I doing this in a roundabout hack, or why isn’t there an sftpd process that serves sftp, just like sshd, apached, telnetd, etc…