lftp with key + passphrase
Solution 1
You must specify the username, and just pass anything as the password, to skip it asking.
lftp -u user,xxx sftp://...
Solution 2
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://[email protected]; 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 inman lftp
).
Solution 3
Just add:
set sftp:connect-program "ssh -a -x -i yourprivatekeyfile"
to your ~/.lftprc
, as most of the settings can be set permanently there.
Solution 4
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.
Hakadel
Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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Hakadel almost 2 years
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 [email protected] Enter passphrase for key '.ssh/id_rsa.mykey': my passphrase here
So, how can I use lftp with this connection method?