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SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:46 am
by teapot
Hey guys. Thanks for the great product!

I just have one little feature request. ;) Any chance you guys could add support for key based authentication? A good example of how this could be done is ConnectBot.

Thanks again,
Teapot

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:22 am
by support
Yes, we're working on it. We plan to add the ability to select a key file that will be used for SFTP.

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 8:49 pm
by teapot
That's awesome. Thanks very much. :)

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:44 pm
by support
SSH DSA private/public key authentication is available in RC9.

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:23 am
by hotaru
key authentication seems to be broken. it prompts for a password even tho there's a key file selected. password authentication is disabled on the server. the same openssh dsa key works fine with connectbot.

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:04 am
by support
Are you sure it's a DSA key ? and not RSA key ?
Did you fill in username, SSH DSA keyfile and key password in FTP settings ?
I've just made a test with my SFTP server and my password protected DSA key and it seems to work.

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:02 am
by hotaru
yes, it's a dsa key, not password protected.
i filled in the username and key file but no password because there isn't one.

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:23 am
by support
Is it possible for you to provide me such testing DSA key with an FTP account so I could try to reproduce the problem from here ? If so then send an email to support(at)lysesoft(dot)com

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:36 pm
by brock
Hi,

Any updates on this? I'm seeing exactly the same problem. Using a DSA key (generated by ConnectBot), no password. AndFTP keeps asking me for login credentials (my ssh server is set to disallow PasswordAuthentication completely).

Re: SFTP Key Authentication

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:06 pm
by support
How do you export DSA key generated in ConnectBot to use it in AndFTP ?

I've a DSA key protected by password working in AndFTP. I've generated this key with CPanel tool on my server. It works fine. Then, I've imported this key into ConnectBot and SSH connection works fine too with this key.