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SFTP/SCP works if you use the ProxyCommand, or agent forwarding. Clients such as WinSCP support agent forwarding, at least. Not sure about FileZilla. I'm not a Windows user, so can't say. :/

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I know FileZilla also supports agent forwarding, but I'm not entirely sure how this would work in practise. If I'm understanding things right you can have a single jumphost and give a user access to multiple targets. So when the user connects to the jumphost using SFTP then what files/directories do they see?

Maybe I should just install and try this for myself...

Interactive selection for agent-forwarding only works for regular SSH, not sftp, due to having no way to enter input.

If I get around to it, one could wrap sftp completely, so that the available servers simply show up as root-level directories.

EDIT: Opened an issue about it.

> If I get around to it, one could wrap sftp completely, so that the available servers simply show up as root-level directories.

That wound be amazing! I'll see if I can check if ProxyCommand is doable with FileZilla later as well.

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