How to enable SFTP access

[Lonney]

I'm trying to get SFTP access to my home pfsense box (please spare me the lecture about enabling extra services on a firewall :)

SSH is enabled under System > Advanced

I have created a new user via System > User manager, then changed /etc/nologin to /bin/sh in /etc/passwd.

If try and ssh in as this user, the putty window closes or exits after entering the password, winscp client reports packet too large. As a test I can SFTP ok if I used the root account and the 'admin' password.

So I cant see what is different? Ideas?

[Gertjan]

@Lonney:

I have created a new user via System > User manager, then …

just save the newly created user, and open it up again for editing.
You'll find a new option: "Effective Privileges" - add "User - System - Shell account access" and save.

Now this new user has SSH ans SFTP access (I tested both).

No need to edit /etc/passwd manually.