Secure FTP (SSH) with the FTP Adapter

[manish_bhalla2]

Hi,

Has anyone ever used the FTP adapter in conjunction with tools like OpenSSH (on CYGWIN) or PUTTY to facilitate secure FTP connections?

I know that the FTP adapter allows us to use FTPS (FTP over SSL), but the client wants to use SSH. As far as I can make out from the various documentation that I have read, openssh or putty need to be triggered as an explicit command.

So, right now, the only way I can think of implementing this scenario is to use the file/ftp adapter to write to a local folder, and then use the 'Run Operating System Command' functionality to trigger the openssh/putty executable, which will then send the file securely to the destination.

But this is not an elegant solution. Can anyone suggest any other way?

Thanks and Regards

Manish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Manish

Check this thread

cheers

Sameer

[MichalKrawczyk]

hi Manish,

in one of our projects we created a java proxy

for ftp ssh connections - with configurable

inteface (via WWW)

not very difficult to develop + dynamic config (like adapters) + lots of java libraries to use

Regards,

michal

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[manish_bhalla2]

Hi Michal,

I am also using the file/ftp adapter to do content conversions. If I follow your suggestions, I will have to use java proxies to connect to a java prgram, within which I will also have to code my content conversion.

sigh... too much custom non-standard code.

Cheers

Manish

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

>>>>too much custom non-standard code.

depends you can combine file adapter with proxy

if you're using sender file adapter:

proxy can only move the file from sftp to some standard ftp (just copy) and a new integration scenario will pick it up with standard sender file adapter from a normal ftp folder

the same with file receiver

but it's always the chooice

Regards,

michal