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Ability to use SSH keys in agent also for SFTP

For my SSH connections I don't add the private key file to TSX, but my password manager automatically loads my SSH keys to the ssh-agent and TSX uses the keys from the agent.
As confirmed by the TSX support, this currently does not work for SFTP Connections as they are implemented via Rebex.

It would be great if the ability to use the ssh-agent was also available for SFTP connections.

BTW: Using the known_hosts file for SFTP connections would be great too.


I also would like this feature, I use 1Password to manage all my SSH key's and would rather keep them separate from Royal TSX. The SSH plugin already uses the SSH agent and that works great! So it would be nice to have SFTP work the same.

Hi, any updates on this?


I've switched to RoyalTS from using the Devolutions RDM, which has this support, while they're also using Rebex as the SFTP library for that.


I've actually tried the SFTP connection with a SSH key added to the pageant ssh-agent (disabled the built-in RDM one) and it worked fine. So, is this still unsupported by Rebex?

Hi Jörg,


using the known_hosts file for SFTP connections is supported in the current V5 beta which you can get here.


Unfortunately, ssh-agent support in SFTP/SCP connections is currently not supported because we use a third-party library (Rebex) to implement those connection types and they currently don't have ssh-agent support.


cheers,

felix

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