[VFS-115] Sftp should support keypairs and private keys in locations other than files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brad Davis
• Created: 07/Mar/07 22:46
• Updated: 17/May/12 20:10

Description

I am attempting to use jar based keypairs in several applications I am developing. Unfortunately because the SFTP configuration only allows for a file to be specified for the private key, in order to use a key stored in a resource I have to first copy the resource to the local filesystem and then use that temporary file. I'd much rather that I could specify the location of the location of private key as a VFS url. Jsch supports using a byte array instead of a file to specify the private key, so VFS could be used to turn the URL into a byte array and pass that to JSCH instead.