Error—–when trying to connect to a SFTP server with a private key and without password

[rumabharathy]

Hi Everyone,

I have a private key in Project folder

How to connect sftp server using UiPath.ftp.activities.withftpsession??

I have provided the below details to the property

Username
hostname
portnumber
password as String.Empty
client certificate path ----passed the private key path

But I got “Invalid private key file error” and then I converted the PPK file into SSH format now getting “FTP Scope: openssh key type: ssh-rsa is not supported”

Please some one help me out from this

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @rumabharathy

The following topic will helps you

Error-----when trying to connect to a SFTP server with a private key and without password

Try Converting the ppk file to openssh format. Then pass the path of the converted file to Client Certificate field. It will work.

[rumabharathy]

@lrtetala I tried the method referred in the link but it is not working

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

@rumabharathy

Can you please check on this

Error when trying to connect to a SFTP server with a private key and without password

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