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sftp and public keys

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Mar 15, 202633087 views
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Problem

I am trying to sftp into an a server hosted by someone else. To make sure this worked I did the standard i was promted with the password and that worked fine. I am setting up a cron script to send a file once a week so have given them our public key which they claim to have added to their authorize…

Error Output

Connecting to user@sftp.xxxxxx.com...
user@sftp.xxxxxx.com's password: 
Permission denied, please try again.
user@sftp.xxxxxx.com's password: 
Permis…

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Fix for: sftp and public keys

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Running in verbose mode should help you: Which will show you what keys it is using and hopefully why its asking for a password. update: You can tell ssh which private key to use: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/force-ssh-client-to-use-given-private-key…

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