Connecting to the SFTP Server with Public Key Authentication

This procedure describes how to connect to the SFTP Server with Public Key authentication without logging in with a user and password for each connection.

NOTE: The File Transfer Server only accepts SSH keys with a non-empty passphrase.

To connect to the SFTP Server:

1. Generate client public keys or use existing keys from your SFTP client.

   If your client is Control-M MFT, see Generating SSH keys.

2. Navigate to the following location:

   <Agent_Home>\CM\AFT\data\

3. Open the authorized_keys file and add a new line with the following format:

   <user> <key format> <key content>

   Where:

   • <user> is the username that is authenticated by an external authentication tool, such as LDAP or PAM.
   • <key format> key format that is defined by the key generator, such as ssh-rsa.
   • <key content> The public key conmponent with out the key comments section.

   EXAMPLE: cuser ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAB97sd6f7f6dsfe3sdfsdalkjhfsdklafdufdsAJSDJKAJDHGjhgaSDjhgAjkhgA=