Several tools exist to generate SSH public/private key pairs. The following sections show how to generate an SSH key pair on UNIX, UNIX-like and Windows platforms.
UNIX and UNIX-like platforms (including Solaris and Linux) include the ssh-keygen utility to generate SSH key pairs.
Converting SSH keys for WinSCP¶ If you want to use WinSCP as an SFTP client to connect to your Acquia Cloud servers, you must convert your SSH key into a format compatible with WinSCP. To convert your key into the required.ppk format, you can use PuTTYgen. Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent. Before adding a new SSH key to the ssh-agent to manage your keys, you should have checked for existing SSH keys and generated a new SSH key. When adding your SSH key to the agent, use the default macOS ssh-add command, and not an application installed by macports, homebrew, or some other external source. SFTP with WinSCP: Configuring SSH Public and Private Keys Using Cpanel Posted on 2015-06-29 by Mukesh M In order to use public and private key based authentication to SFTP to your server, you need to have SSH enabled on your hosting account. Jan 18, 2019 A host private key is generated when the SSH server is set up. It is safely stored in a location that should be accessible by a server administrator only. The user connecting to the SSH server does not need to care about host private key in general. In order to generate a signature, WinSCP must decrypt the key, so you have to type your passphrase. This can make public-key authentication less convenient than password authentication: every time you log in to the server, instead of typing a short password, you have to type a longer passphrase.
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your choice of file name for the private key:The ssh-keygen utility prompts you for a passphrase for the private key.
Note:
While a passphrase is not required, you should specify one as a security measure to protect the private key from unauthorized use. When you specify a passphrase, a user must enter the passphrase every time the private key is used.
The ssh-keygen utility prompts you to enter the passphrase again.
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and the public key has been saved as filename
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. It also displays information about the key fingerprint and randomart image.The PuTTYgen program is part of PuTTY, an open source networking client for the Windows platform.
To download PuTTY or PuTTYgen, go to http://www.putty.org/ and click the You can download PuTTY here link.
As the key is being generated, move the mouse around the blank area as directed.
Note:
While a passphrase is not required, you should specify one as a security measure to protect the private key from unauthorized use. When you specify a passphrase, a user must enter the passphrase every time the private key is used.
.ppk
(PuTTY private key).Note:
The.ppk
file extension indicates that the private key is in PuTTY's proprietary format. You must use a key of this format when using PuTTY as your SSH client. It cannot be used with other SSH client tools. Refer to the PuTTY documentation to convert a private key in this format to a different format. Make sure you select all the characters, not just the ones you can see in the narrow window. If a scroll bar is next to the characters, you aren't seeing all the characters.
.pub
extension to indicate that the file contains a public key.ssh
utility on Linux), export the private key:.ppk
format, using an extension such as .openssh
to indicate the file's content.So a single point of reference for generating SSH keys is Generating SSH Keys for SFTP Adapters – Type 1 – Process Integration – SCN Wiki.
Recent observations from multiple projects where people create SSH public key and give to SFTP server team and mysteriously it connect then. It all left me searching here and there solve the problem. The causes of this are –
1. SAP PI Developer not aware whether keys are valid or not?
2. SFTP server administrator may just believe key provided are correct?
3. Basis team may not may also be unaware how the end ssh key should be? Is it uploaded at the correct place? Are the permissions correct.
So here I am, making an attempt to bridge the gap and provide you the “KEY for Key Generation”. Let us first know what all we may need, the so called –
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PRE-REQUISITES
1. WinScp (you may have other tools, but this one is simple and easily available 🙂 )
2. Cygwin installed with openSSH and openSSL packages
Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-V6el8Oxk
              Text – Installing Cygwin/X
3. Putty (FAMOUS) – this and WinScp can be combined.
4. NWA keystore access to create keystores
The above is enough to generate the keys and have it ready for the development. But, we PI consultants end up getting erroneous results for a new configuration. So to make sure we give the tested keys to client here is a tutorial to create the SFTP server on your local windows machine.
Apart from the links in the Part2, I will explain hand-picked steps out of the tutorial to set up sftp server correctly and quickly in the first attempt ( 😉 ) . So enough of reading let us start with the configuration.
1. Start Winscp -> Click on Tools -> Run PuTTygen
2. Select Parameters – SSH-2 RSA and Enter number of bits -2048. Click Generate.
3. Now you need to save the PrivateKey (ppk), PublicKey and PublicKey to be saved in SFTP server.
Note- i) The public key saved from “Save Public Key” and the “Public Key” to be saved in SFTP server can’t be same. The public key                                        saved starts with —- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY —-, but the key to be pasted in SFTP server starts with ssh-rsa.
 ii) In the file authorized_keys, each line refers to a separate public key. So we also need to make sure there are no new line                                              characters in our key. So an authorized_keys file will look as below-
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4. Below are the Keys generated. Please follow the instruction in screenshots carefully.
Once the keys are generated, click on Save Private Key, Save Public Key and copy paste the key to be pasted in authorized_keys file and save.
Now, you will have 3 files generated. PPK private key, SSH public Key, SSH Public key to be pasted on to SFTP server. I have named 3 files as privateKey_SFTP.ppk, publicKey_SFTP.pub and publicKey_SSH.pub. Files will look as below.
5.Now sendpublicKey_SSH.pub file to SFTP server team to install via mail. If you want to test it with a local SFTP server, refer part 2 or video link embedded above.
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6. Before we put the key to SAP PO NWA KeyStore we must make sure our keys are set up correctly. To test this we can use WinScp or PuTTy.
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In Advanced->Click Authentication under SSH -> Select the ppk private key
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When you login for the first time, you will get a warning with the server’s fingerprint. This is a good sign showing it is able to reach the SFTP server. Just click Yes.
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If you have chosen Passphrase while generating the key it will ask the passphrase else it will connect.
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And that is it, you will be placed at the SFTProot folder.
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This must be your Hurray! moment. After this the task is easy. We need to convert PPK to PKCS12 and import in NWA. Lets see how to do that too.
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6. Now we need to convert privateKey_SFTP.ppk to pkcs12 format for SAP PO to import in NWA key store. For this Cygwin must be installed with openssl package
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  i) We will generate a PEM private key. I am naming it as privateKey_SFTP.pem. So again launch WinSCP->Tools->Run PuttYgen
  ii) Click on File->Load Private Key and choose your PPK key (privateKey_SFTP.ppk)
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      iii) Once the key is loaded, I recommend remove the passphrase this time and click Conversions->Export Open SSH Key, it will give warnign for blank passphrase. Just click YES and proceed. Name it as <yourname>.pem (privateKey_SFTP.pem)
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    iv) Now launch cygwin as administrator . Right click -> run as administrator. Now run change directory ( cd) command to move to directory where you kept you pem file. for the ease place it in any drve G: , D: . This will save us to struggle with CD command 😉
v) use OpenSSL package commands to create X.509 certificate
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-x509 -days
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-key privateKey_SFTP.pem -out x509_certificateSFTP.pem
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                v) Now we will create PKCS 12 key to be imported in NWA with a password. Continuing in the CYGWIN enter following command
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            openssl pkcs12 -export -in x509_certificateSFTP.pem -inkey privateKey_SFTP.pem -out sftp_keystore.p12
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7. Now login to NWA of SAP PO/PI . http://<host>:<port>/nwa…… Configuration->Certificates and keys
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      i) Click on Add View-> Give View Name
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       ii) choose SFTP_KeyStore -> Import Entry-> PKCS#12 and click choose file to select the p12 generated. Provide the password which we set in cygwin while generating P12 and click import
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This is all. Now you can select the above private key in your SFTP channel and continue with your development.
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In the Part 2, I will show how to test the connection with PuTTy (already shown with WinScp) and also how to set up the local SFTP server. Stay Tuned for Part2
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