SFTP Key Authentication

[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

[support]

Yes, we're working on it. We plan to add the ability to select a key file that will be used for SFTP.

[teapot]

That's awesome. Thanks very much.

[support]

SSH DSA private/public key authentication is available in RC9.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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).

[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.