Configuring PKI Support

The Hosted~FTP~ SaaS application has been designed to support public key authentication with SFTP connections. Please review these links for further information on (Public Key) PKI:

Generating a Secure Shell (SSH) key pair for an SFTP

Please review this link for details on generating an SSH key pair for either a Windows or MAC machine. To import PKI keys from PuttyGen on Linux, refer to this link. For using PKI keys with Linux, refer to this article.

Setting up Hosted~FTP~ for PKI

Login to the admin account or to a user that is not a “managed user”
Go to the Setup tab and under Options check “Use a public key for SFTP authentication”
Enter your PKI in the text box and save.

Public Key

Alternate key format
PKI

Setting up an FTP client for PKI e.g. FileZilla

For the FileZilla FTP client go to Edit > Settings > SFTP to get to preferences (see below) and select the “Add keyfile” button (your private key).

public key

Enter the login credentials in Filezilla and ensure that the password field is left blank and SFTP is the protocol