Indeed. As far as I know, only way to sftp for non-root users have only been done by me as described here → http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud-EX2/SFTP-possible-on-EX2/m-p/715812#M253
Yes, it’s on the EX2, not My Cloud which has a different codebase but I’d suspect a similar hack could be implemented on the single bay My Cloud. And yes, I am well aware of the sftp request on the new ideas thread…I voted for that change myself several weeks ago…just days before I was able to solve the challenge for myself. I suspect that sftp isn’t going to arrive anytime soon, if at all…because I studied what the big boys of QNAP and Synology are doing and they offer FTPS support in their firmware but not SFTP. So if they, who have more advanced platforms, aren’t offering it, I doubt WD ever will.
