psftp(1) PuTTY tool suite psftp(1)

NAME

psftp - interactive SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) client

SYNOPSIS

psftp [options] [user@]host

DESCRIPTION

psftp is an interactive text-based client for the SSH-based SFTP
(secure file transfer) protocol.

OPTIONS

The command-line options supported by psftp are:

-V Show version information and exit.

-pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and
exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY
team.

-b batchfile
Use specified batchfile.

-bc Output batchfile commands.

-be Don't stop batchfile processing on errors.

-v Show verbose messages.

-load session
Load settings from saved session.

-P port
Connect to port port.

-proxycmd command
Instead of making a TCP connection, use command as a proxy;
network traffic will be redirected to the standard input and
output of command. command must be a single word, so is likely
to need quoting by the shell.

The special strings %host and %port in command will be
replaced by the hostname and port number you want to connect
to; to get a literal % sign, enter %%.

Backslash escapes are also supported, such as sequences like
\n being replaced by a literal newline; to get a literal
backslash, enter \\. (Further escaping may be required by the
shell.)

(See the main PuTTY manual for full details of the supported
%- and backslash-delimited tokens, although most of them are
probably not very useful in this context.)

-l user
Set remote username to user.

-batch Disable interactive prompts.

-no-sanitise-stderr
By default, PSFTP will filter control characters from the
standard error channel from the server, to prevent remote
processes sending confusing escape sequences. This option
forces the standard error channel to not be filtered.

-pwfile filename
Open the specified file, and use the first line of text read
from it as the remote password.

-pw password
Set remote password to password. CAUTION: this will likely
make the password visible to other users of the local machine
(via commands such as `ps' or `w'). Use -pwfile instead.

-1 Force use of SSH protocol version 1.

-2 Force use of SSH protocol version 2.

-ssh-connection
Force use of the `bare ssh-connection' protocol. This is only
likely to be useful when connecting to a psusan(1) server,
most likely with an absolute path to a Unix-domain socket in
place of host.

-ssh Force use of the SSH protocol. (This is usually not needed;
it's only likely to be useful if you need to override some
other configuration of the `bare ssh-connection' protocol.)

-4, -6 Force use of IPv4 or IPv6 for network connections.

-C Enable SSH compression.

-i keyfile
Private key file for user authentication. For SSH-2 keys, this
key file must be in PuTTY's PPK format, not OpenSSH's format
or anyone else's.

If you are using an authentication agent, you can also specify
a public key here (in RFC 4716 or OpenSSH format), to identify
which of the agent's keys to use.

-noagent
Don't try to use an authentication agent.

-agent Allow use of an authentication agent. (This option is only
necessary to override a setting in a saved session.)

-no-trivial-auth
Disconnect from any SSH server which accepts authentication
without ever having asked for any kind of password or
signature or token. (You might want to enable this for a
server you always expect to challenge you, for instance to
ensure you don't accidentally type your key file's passphrase
into a compromised server spoofing PSFTP's passphrase prompt.)

-hostkey key
Specify an acceptable host public key. This option may be
specified multiple times; each key can be either a fingerprint
(SHA256:AbCdE..., 99:aa:bb:..., etc) or a base64-encoded blob
in OpenSSH's one-line format.

Specifying this option overrides automated host key
management; only the key(s) specified on the command-line will
be accepted (unless a saved session also overrides host keys,
in which case those will be added to), and the host key cache
will not be written.

-sshlog logfile


-sshrawlog logfile
These options make psftp log protocol details to a file. (Some
of these may be sensitive, although by default an effort is
made to suppress obvious passwords.)

-sshlog logs decoded SSH packets and other events (those that
-v would print). -sshrawlog additionally logs the raw
encrypted packet data.

-logoverwrite
If PSFTP is configured to write to a log file that already
exists, discard the existing file.

-logappend
If PSFTP is configured to write to a log file that already
exists, append new log data to the existing file.

COMMANDS

For a list of commands available inside psftp, type help at the
psftp> prompt.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information on psftp it's probably best to go and look at
the manual on the PuTTY web page:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

BUGS

This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for
better documentation.

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