At the moment I’m trying to use node-sftp in order to provide my nodejs script with the ability to SFTP with a private key.
That module appears to be broken since v 0.6 of node (tty.open is no longer a method).
So i’ve tried to use a child process and spawn my sftp command.
Now the connection appears to work fine (I checked the ftp servers logs @ /var/log/auth.log)
I can also see some output in the Node window…
Permanently added '46.x.x.x' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Connected to 46.x.x.x.
Changing to: /home/deploy/somefolder
When I connect directly via the command line using the following command it ends up with a prompt like sftp>, which is waiting for my FTP commands
sftp -o Port=22 -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o IdentityFile=private_key -o UserKnownHostsFile=/v/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o BatchMode=yes deploy@46.x.x.x:/home/deploy/somefolder
Does anyone have any suggestions on where I might be going wrong?
Its hard to say without a little more detail, but I would take a look at:
https://github.com/chjj/pty.js/
This will emulate a tty device that you can read and write to.
If you can provide some additional code you have tried, we may be able to point you in a better direction.
You could also try cloning the node-sftp module from: https://github.com/ajaxorg/node-sftp.git and using the library directly instead of from npm, it looks like the latest version in github has support for node versions newer that 0.6