I'm using lftp to send files to an SFTP server, but I don't how to connect with key and passphrase.
So in sftp, I can do this:
sftp -i .ssh/id_rsa.mykey login@my.host.fr
Enter passphrase for key '.ssh/id_rsa.mykey': my passphrase here
So, how can I use lftp with this connection method?
I have also tried:
lftp -e "set ssl:key-file .ssh/id_rsa.mykey" sftp://my.host.fr
An answer based off Jean-Luc Boss's and wiak's, but a bit more explicit:
To connect to a server, lftp uses an ssh command, by default ssh -a -x. It doesn't have an explicit option for changing the keyfile to use, but as you note, ssh does, so we just need to set lftp to connect using ssh -a -x -i <keyfile> before it connects.
You can do this in a few ways:
If you're using lftp's interactive command line, run the following command before you connect:
set sftp:connect-program "ssh -a -x -i <keyfile>"
If you're specifying a bunch of commands to lftp using -c, just add that set command to the start of your command sequence:
lftp -c 'set sftp:connect-program "ssh -a -x -i <keyfile>"; connect sftp://user@example.com; mirror -eR files; ...'
If you always going to want to use the same key, just add that set ... line from the first bullet to your ~/.lftprc file (or one of the other configuration file options listed in man lftp).
You must specify the username, and just pass anything as the password, to skip it asking.
lftp -u user,xxx sftp://...
Just add:
set sftp:connect-program "ssh -a -x -i yourprivatekeyfile"
to your ~/.lftprc, as most of the settings can be set permanently there.
LFTP doesn't seem to pass or does not use the identity file specified with "ssl:key-file" with SSH. You have to specify it in the sftp:connect-program option:
ssh -a -x -i yourprivatekeyfile
This should work.
