Re: sFTP question

Just in case your business partner does not know how or does not care to setup 
public key exchange with you, 
here's how to do it yourself:

1. Get the server's public key like described in my posting from September 30.

2. Place your public key on the remote server.

this works for unix servers:

I assume that your private key is in the .ssh/id_rsa.pub (inside your home 
directory)
If it does not exist yet, create the .ssh subdirectory inside your default 
directory on the server. 
Upload your public key to this directory 

put .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/id_rsa_as400.pub

Append your public key to the authorized_keys file
ssh remoteuser@remotehost "cat .ssh/id_rsa_as400.pub >> /.ssh/authorized_keys"

If the authorized_keys file does not exist yet, you can skip a step and simply 
upload your public key like this


 put .ssh/id_rsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys



Shalom Carmel
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www.hackingiseries.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Cunningham 
  To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx ; shalom@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:55 PM
  Subject: Re: sFTP question


  I think Jerry is trying to do the same thing I wanted to do but could not get 
it to work either. I needed to do an sFTP file transfer in unattended mode in 
the middle of the night and the company who I was sending data to used only 
sFTP but only with userid and passwords, not public keys. I needed to send the 
userid and password to the remote server just like I do FTP from the iSeries, 
using a script file. I ended up getting WsFTP from Ipswitch which has an sFTP 
implementation that let me define the userid and password in the a script. The 
PC it runs on has a drive map to the IFS and at 2:00 am kicks off an SFTP logon 
to the remote server, sends a userid and password, copys a file from the remote 
server to the IFS and then copys a file from the IFS to the remote server and 
disconnects.

  >>> shalom@xxxxxxxxxx 11/16/2006 3:42:16 PM >>>

  Hey Jerry,
  Almost all ssh clients supports user/password only in attended jobs.
  If you try to create a client ssh session from iseries to a ssh server, and 
  if you do not provide a key, then you will be prompted for a password.
  The same happends when you connect to an iseries ssh server.
  So, what exactly did you try to do and failed?

  Shalom Carmel
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  www.hackingiseries.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  > message: 7
  > date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:12:02 -0800
  > from: Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  > subject: sFTP question
  >
  > I have installed the sFTP LIC provided by IBM:
  >
  > 5722SS1, option 33 - OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment
  > 5733SC1 option 1 - OpenSSH, OpenSSL, zlib
  >
  > I have reviewed posts from midrange-l and the redbook.
  >
  > Help me out here.
  >
  > It appears that this implementation of SSH does not support passing a
  > userid and password and only supports the public/private key exchange
  > system.
  >
  > Jerry