SFTP PrivateKey Support

[isaozler]

Hi @lukasz-wronski,

Do you guys planned to add a privateKey key in ftp-sync.json?

"privateKey":"/here/is/my/key"

something like this would fix this I guess

privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync('/here/is/my/key')

[lukasz-wronski]

Thanks for your request. I guess I can add it easily, just need to check if my sftp library supports it.

[isaozler]

ssh2 @ npm does

[lukasz-wronski]

Cool, that's the one I'm using so I'll definitely add this to extension soon...

[isaozler]

Thanks @lukasz-wronski this would help working with @microsoft /vscode synchronously on aws projects

[frux]

+1! There is no extension with normal sftp supporting yet. Please add this feature!

[lukasz-wronski]

@isaozler, @frux: You can test it now in 0.3.1 version of extension, privateKeyPath parameter can be added to config file.

[isaozler]

it works, wunderbar :) 👍

[ransoni]

Does it have support for password protected private keys?

[lmnoop]

Note to Windows peeps about what wasn't immediately obvious to me:

• Using PuTTYgen, you want to export your private key in OpenSSH format.
• Passphrases don't seem to be supported.
• "privateKeyPath" backslashes need to be escaped, like so: "C:\\Users\\username\\.ssh\\private_key_file"

[sotirosn]

The above comment needs to be put in the readme file. It has taken me hours to find it.

[smedsrud]

adding support for "passphrase": would do the trick

[darkflame470]

It gets stuck on "sync prepare in progress" when you use an ed25519 key. Might want to put that it only supports RSA keys.

[raimis001]

Its posible use .pem file for privateKeyPath?