Re: [Proftpd-user] Using public key

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016, at 08:46, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> I have configured proftpd to accept public key auth.  But, when
> attempting to log in using an account that is configured for such auth.
> I'm getting : permission denied (publickey,password)
> 
> Suggestions?

In working with the OP off-list, he discovered that the SSH private key
had been renamed on the client side, causing the publickey
authentication to fail unexpectedly.  Using verbose client logging (e.g.
`sftp -vvv ...`) revealed the issue.  Once that was corrected, publickey
authentication using proftpd+mod_sftp worked as expected.

Cheers,
TJ