

When using the WinSCP command line, you can specify: Please refer to the documentation for your specific SFTP client for exact details about how to use a host key fingerprint as some clients provide this capability while others do not.įor example, WinSCP provides host key fingerprint capability via its -hostkey option.

Use whichever format is required by your SFTP app. The host key itself (in OpenSSH format) as well as fingerprints in 3 different formats are provided below. If you miss this step then you might see permission errors, where subfolders will be created but the files contained within them will fail to download.į makes use of a 4096-bit RSA SSH host key. Using the lumask command to set the UMASK to 002 will set the correct permissions for all the files to download successfully. Download the folder contents using the get -r (get recursively) command.Set your local permissions using the lumask (locally set the mask for user permissions) command.Create the local destination folder using the lmkdir (locally make directory) command (make sure the folder name matches the name of the folder you’re trying to download).

