SSH into the VM on port 2222

Overview

SFTP Gateway v3.x uses port 2222 for the SSH protocol, since the Java SFTP service is bound to port 22.

When you connect over SSH, you need to override the default port.

Connect over Port 2222

Use the following command to SSH into the VM:

ssh -i private.key azureuser@<ip-address> -p 2222

Replace azureuser with the Linux admin user you specified when provisioning the VM.

Note: You will be prompted to accept the server host key on first connection. The server host key is cached on your client machine, based the hostname and port.

The default SSH port is 22, so you need to explicitly set port 2222 which is the port OpenSSH listens to.

SCP

When using SCP (which uses SSH behind the scenes), you will also need to specify port 2222:

scp -P 2222 local-file.tar.gz azureuser@<ip-address>:/home/azureuser/

PuTTY (Windows)

1. Open PuTTY and select SSH as the connection type.
2. In the Host Name field, enter azureuser@<public ip>
3. In the Port field, change 22 to 2222
4. Expand the SSH section on the left, and click on Auth.
5. Click on Browse to browse for the .ppk key, and click Open when you have selected it.
6. To launch the SSH session, click Open.