Guidance on usage: SFTP – OpenSSH FTP Server on SUSE Enterprise Server 15 SP7 on Amazon

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Configuration and Connection to the SFTP – OpenSSH FTP Server on SUSE Enterprise Server 15 SP7

Configuration and Connection to the SFTP – OpenSSH FTP Server on SUSE Enterprise Server 15 SP7

To connect to the Server, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instruction (choose the “file format:” option “.ppk” in step 3) Guidance on usage: Key Pair Setup for Seamless VM Access

Connecting and creating a new user

  1. Connecting to the VM using the PuTTY application. You can download it at the following link – Download
    • Go to section SSH on the left panel, and then to Auth
  • In the Auth section, click Browse and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
  • Return to the Session home page, enter the VM’s IP address (1), and click Open (2).
  • In the opened console you will need to enter the login ec2-user.
  1. Run script sudo addsftpuser (1) and enter a username (2)
  1. Open the file with the generated key:

sudo cat /root/”username”/keys

  1. Copy the key to the text file on your device and save the file as keys.pem

Connecting to SFTP using FileZilla Client

  1. To connect to the SFTP Server, it is recommended to use the “FileZilla Client” application (you can download it from the following link: Download FileZilla Client for Windows (64bit x86)).
  1. Run FileZilla Client and open Site Manager
  1. Create a new site
  1. Enter the required data and fill in the required fields
    • select SFTP – SSH File Transfer Protocol (1)
    • enter your VM IP address (2)
    • select Key file (3)
    • enter the name of the created user (4)
    • enter the path to the saved keys.pem file (5)
    • click Connect (6)
  1. Once you enter all the data and click Connect, you will successfully connect to the server. 

Now you can work with your own SFTP server.