Does EFT support older SFTP clients that don't provide for Keyboard Interactive Authentication (KIA)?

THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE APPLIES TO:

• version 7.0.3.16 and later

QUESTION

Does EFT support older SFTP clients that don't provide for Keyboard Interactive Authentication (KIA)?

ANSWER

EFT provides the KIA feature used by modern SFTP clients. If you need to allow older SFTP clients to connect that do not support KIA, you can disable that feature in EFT with the following registry setting.

To disable Keyboard Interactive Authentication

Registry Path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GlobalSCAPE Inc.\EFT Server 4.0\Config

Type: DWORD

AllowMethodKIA

1 = allow (the default)

0 = disable

Cached: no

Backup/Restore: yes