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F5 iApp for automated backups to the local device and to network locations.
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Cannot copy to remote SCP site with v3.1.9 #23

Closed rpasche closed 3 years ago

rpasche commented 5 years ago

Trying to backup the files to a remote SCP server with version 3.1.9 on a F5 v 14.1 fails.

I found out that it looks like the whole key is not stored. The input is truncated after the first newline, so it just stores the header "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" and that's it.

I'm wondering, what "string" should be put into the private ssh key field.

I fixed my version of the template by replacing all '\n' chars with '|' prior to pasting the key into the ssh key field and just revert this change while decrypting the key later.

What format on the private SSH key am I missing that seems to work everywhere?

rpasche

tabernarious commented 3 years ago

Interesting. Pasting the private key is definitely finnicky. I would make sure you are PEM format with Unix-style end-of-line (LF, not CRLF). If you're working in Windows make sure you paste the key into an editor like Notepad++ first and set the EOL format to LF.

rpasche commented 3 years ago

Hm....this is pretty old. Didn't know, that this is still open and I do not have access to my changes because those were done at customer site, where I am not anymore.

tabernarious commented 3 years ago

I know it's been a while. Trying to brush it up and tie up any loose ends still out there. I'll close this issue for now.