Privatekey auth not working

First off I’d like to state that I might be wrong, but due to the scarce documentation I resorted to open an issue.

I’m trying to connect to my server using sftp protocol on a non standard port with private key based authentication instead of password based. My .ftpconfig file looks like this

{
    "protocol": "sftp",
    "host": "{HOST}",
    "port": {NON-STANDARD_PORT},
    "user": "{USER}",
    "pass": "",
    "promptForPass": false,
    "remote": "{REMOTE_DIR}",
    "local": "",
    "agent": "",
    "privatekey": "~/.ssh/id_rsa",
    "passphrase": "",
    "hosthash": "",
    "ignorehost": true,
    "connTimeout": 10000,
    "keepalive": 10000,
    "keyboardInteractive": false,
    "watch": [],
    "watchTimeout": 500
}

What I’m not sure about is whether I’m making a mistake in the settings or is a remote-ftp issue. I should mention that if I try to connect from command line with the exact same parameters I can access properly, so either I’m wrong or there’s an issue in the package. sftp {USER}@{HOST} -p {NON-STANDARD_PORT}

The message I get when I try to connect within Atom is Remote FTP: Error: All configured authentication methods failed

The only thing I could get from the documentation are that the key has to be OpenSSH format (which is) and that instead of inserting the actual key I have to use its path (which I’m sure it’s correct).

[olafghanizadeh]

Had the samme issue and found this 😃

[neto-ben]

I had the same problem. Turns out it doesn’t support “~” in the privatekey field. Changed it to “/home/ben/.ssh/id_rsa” and it seems to be working fine now! (Turn on “promptForPass” so it will ask for the passphrase)