I cant scp, the other server only takes sftp connections.
Currently, I am trying to do
sftp [email protected]:/files> put -r ~/
-i keyname
does not work, just resolves with illegal option -- i
.
I cant scp, the other server only takes sftp connections.
Currently, I am trying to do
sftp [email protected]:/files> put -r ~/
-i keyname
does not work, just resolves with illegal option -- i
.
Try:
sftp -o "IdentityFile=keyname" [email protected]
You can use -o
to pass any option that's valid in ~/.ssh/config
.
IdentityFile
option to always automatically be given, check out UtahJarhead's answer about putting it in ~/.ssh/config
Copy your PUBLIC key to the server using traditional means.
On server:
.ssh
if it doesn't exist:[[ ! -d "${HOME}/.ssh" ]] && mkdir -p "${HOME}/.ssh"
cat /path/to/public_key.pub >> "${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys"
chmod go-rwx "${HOME}" "${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys"
After that, you should be able to log in from the client using the PRIVATE key. To automate a transfer, you want to use a batch file, which is just a text file containing a list of commands to execute.
echo "put filename.foo /safe/path/filename.foo" >> /tmp/batchfile.txt sftp -b /tmp/batchfile.txt -oIdentityFile=/path/to/private_key user@host
Alternatively, feel free to create a ~/.ssh/config file in ssh_config format so you can just type this in the future:
sftp -b /tmp/batchfile.txt host
Sample contents of ~/.ssh/config
Host the_hostname User user_name IdentityFile /path/to/private_key
I got into this issue recently and what worked for me in my macbook default terminal setup is the following
sftp -i ./privateFilePath.key [email protected]
Note you might be promoted with UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! message in which case you need to run this command to make sure your private key is not accessible by others.
chmod 600 privateFilePath.key
In some cases you need to put sudo in front of the command, this is only if you are working in a admin protected directory
I wish thats helpful :)
-i
option is not working?
Aug 6, 2018 at 14:17
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