Dreamweaver SFTP with ED25519 Key [Branched from old topic]

[johnfl68]

Has Dreamweaver added ED25519 Key support yet?

Here we are many years later, and everytime I try to connect to my servers with Dreamwaeaver using ED25519 Keys, it never seems to work.

I have been connecting this way fine with many other programs for years now.

It would be nice if Adobe would bring this up to date so it actually works.

[Nancy OShea]

Which version of Dreamweaver CC do you have?  What type of identity key file are you using? 

The latest Dreamweaver CC supports only OpenSSH key files.

See related help article below for more details on using SFTP connections in DW.

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/connect-remote-server.html

Failing that, use free FileZilla S/FTP client.

Hope that helps.

[B i r n o u]

The latest Dreamweaver CC supports only OpenSSH key files.

By @Nancy OShea

But isn't ED25519 a supported key used by openSSH, since openSSH 6.4 ?

[Nancy OShea]

Yes and some people still try to use the wrong type of personal key file with DW then wonder why it doesn't work.

To be more precise, Dreamweaver does not support .ppk file.  Use a .pem file instead and it should work.

[johnfl68]

Keys were created on Ubuntu Server using Open SSH.

Dreamweaver is most recent version v21.1.

It is really frustrating that I can use the KEY, PEM, and PPK keys I already have for pretty much every other piece of software to connect to my servers without any issues, but I still can not get Dreamweaver to connect no matter what file format or key I have tried, and I have tried them all.

There are threads all over the Internet with people having these same issues, so it's not just me. Why is it so easy for all these other programs to do, yet it seems so hard for Adobe to get this working for people that use SSH keys for logins every day?

Oh well, I give up. I'm tired of trying to get this to work year after year. I'll just stick with using WinSCP like I have been.

Thanks for trying to help.

[Nancy OShea]

I still cannot get Dreamweaver to connect no matter what file format or key I have tried, and I have tried them all.

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• Which web host and hosting plan? 
• Did you try using  puTTYgen to create your .pem key?

https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/putty/windows/puttygen

[johnfl68]

I am on RamNode VPS's, all with a clean installs of Ubuntu Server 20.04.2 LTS done be me, not by them. OpenSSH is (OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.2, OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020) as recommended long term build using Ubuntu Repositories. 

I have six servers in 4 locatoions around the world, that I connect to every day without issues using key based login.

Yes, I tried using puTTYgen as well, both Export OpenSSH Key, and Export OpenSSH Key (force new file format). I also tried with .PEM extension, and without any extension as some have suggested in other threads.

Also, please do not send people to other sites to download Putty and Putty related tools, as they are not trusted. Putty should only be downloaded from the original Putty team site or authorized mirrors as the safest download: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

None of those keys work with Dreamweaver.

Every key format I have does work with every other piece of software I use to connect SSH and SFTP to these same servers, with no issues at all.

The only plausable conclusion is that Dreamweaver is not handling this in the same way as everyone else does. The most logical answer is that Dreamweaver needs to look at how everyone else is doing this, and change the code to handle this in the same way that everyone else is, so this works like it does for everyone else, becuase what you have now is not working for many many peoeple.

Thank you for your time.

[Nancy OShea]

"...because what you have now is not working for many many peoeple."

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I can't reproduce your problem.  Also this is a user-to-user community. We don't make the software.  Please submit bugs to Adobe DW UserVoice from your Help menu where it will be logged and prioritized.

[B i r n o u]

do you mean that you can use DW and connect using a ED25519 Key ? and not able to reproduce the bug encountered by @johnfl68 

or

do you mean, that you can't test using ED25519 Key because you don't have any material under hand to reproduce it