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I'm using lftp to send files to a 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 using lftp with this connecting method ?
You must specify the username, and just pass anything as the password, to skip it asking.
lftp -u user,xxx sftp://...
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).
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.
