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From: Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>
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Subject: Re: Switching username using SFTP
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On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, takhoos@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the
> system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l  host.domain.com.   
> 
> How does one do this with SFTP on the command line?  The -l switch
> doesn't work.  The man pages on SFTP makes no mention of this.
> 
> -- Joe

The man page implies the correct use at the top:
     sftp [[user@]host[:dir[/]]]

So sftp user@host.example.com works.  Lower down in the file, it also
mentions using options, and it turns out that this works as well:
     sftp -o User=username host.example.com

Erik