I have generate public key and private key in windows 7 through puttygen then change the key to openssh in puttygen through export key. Now I want to use this openssh key to access my sftp server from RHEL 6. what kind of steps I need to take in RHEL so can use openssh key and access the sftp server. I am new thats why thanks for cooperation.
1 Answer
With the user that you want to access the sftp server automatically, you need to first do an
ssh-keygen
This generates an ssh keypair. Press enter for all questions to accept the defaults.
ssh-copy-id YOUR_SFTP_SERVER_ADDRESS
This will make your sftp server trust your ssh key
Following this all ssh access to the sftp server will not prompt you to enter a password. Likewise, all scp's will not ask for a password. So you can fetch your files like so:
scp YOUR_SFTP_SERVER_ADDRESS:PATH_TO_FILES_ON_SFTP_SERVER DESTINATION_DIRECTORY
example
scp 192.168.0.53:/home/john/shared_files/ /tmp/
This will bring John's files to the local directory /tmp
Hope this helps!
