SFTP Key Authentication

[hotaru]

is password auth disabled on your server?

[support]

No, but I'm sure the key is used.

[hotaru]

how do you know? has anyone gotten this app to work with a server that has password auth disabled?
you do know that having password auth enabled can allow people to brute-force your password, right?

[brock]

Yes... I finally got it to work by generating the key on my laptop using ssh-keygen instead of trying to use the one generated on the device.

DSA key (no password), PasswordAuthentication disabled on server.

[support]

Great !
I think the problem might come from key file format. If AndFTP is not able to read key then it switches back to login/password authentication.

[hotaru]

@brock: what command line options did you use? the keys i've tried were all generated by ssh-keygen except for one, and i haven't been able to get andftp to use any of them.

[guirenault]

@brock: what command line options did you use? the keys i've tried were all generated by ssh-keygen except for one, and i haven't been able to get andftp to use any of them.

I'm also interesting by the solution at these problem ...
My DSA key's (with password to protect them) generated by puttygen or ssh-keygen doesn't work ...

Thanks,

[support]

FYI, I've generated my DSA key with tool available in CPanel and it worked fine.

[guirenault]

Ok thanks ... could you give us the line before and after your key ?
Ex : -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- and -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Because I use Webmin for my server and not CPanel and I use puttygen to generate my key ... like a lot of people I think ...

So I think that it's perhaps a problem of line before and after the file where the key is ...

Thanks ...

[support]

My DSA key looks like:

-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIBvAIBAAKBgQC0fQXAPWcwMN4raub+NMHtjYonr4m71MXqTxOX+583yqv8PD62
...
...
US0ApsKRX1szZ+dGqgX2Lg==
-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----