SFTP with a username AND login name?

Question

I just set up a Mac to accept SSH connections. It need both a login and user name like this:

ssh admin@192.168.1.100 -l "My login name"

This works fine, but I can't figure out how to do this using sftp. There doesn't seem to be a -login option to the sftp command. Has anyone ever done this?

Answer 1

It's somewhat confusing that they use both terms, but login and user name are the same thing. Your ssh call only needs one or the other. I don't use Macs, so I don't know if spaces are allowed in Mac usernames, but you might try ssh "My login name"@192.168.1.100 to verify that you can still log in. Similarly, for sftp, use sftp "My login name"@192.168.1.100.