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So, I spent a couple days a few months ago building exactly this on an ec-2 instance. I have an SFTP service running on an Ubuntu box, it has jailed homes for u

So, I spent a couple days a few months ago building exactly this on an ec-2 instance. I have an SFTP service running on an Ubuntu box, it has jailed homes for users, it's ssh-key-only, uses s3fs to persist things to the correct buckets, etc. My only problem with the managed service (which I'd LOVE to switch to tbh) is I can't for the life of me get it to actually connect and upload a file. I suspect I'm doing something wrong in IAM, but the tutorials suck and it looks like IAM isn't even ready for this service yet. I can get a user authenticated, but it's like it's trying to figure out where "home" is and crapping out, connection closed. Nothing helpful in the verbose output, either. Bummer.

twodave 8y ago
And to emphasize, the process of simply adding a user to this thing SUCKS. In my homebrew instance, it's just a matter of generating the key pair and dropping the public key into a folder on S3. Cron job reads the bucket, creates new users/homes/etc for anything new, all pasted together using bash scripts basically. But at the end of the day it's ridiculously simple. I'd hoped a fully managed solution would actually be simpler (instead of simply more stable because it's managed, after all).