SFTP SSH Key Auth

[patrickhait]

I have set up a SFTP Remote Connection and can successfully place a CSV file on a server through SFTP with Password Authentication.  Our vendor wants to use Public/Private key authentication and has provided us with an ssh_rsa .pub  key.  How can I import that key to our PowerSchool SIS platform?  I have investigated Digital Certificate Management and the Key/User/System Trust Stores, but that seems to be SSL certificates, not SSH keys.  I've tried uploading the SSH key, but it seems that it will only accept a SSL certificate.  One cannot log into SSH via an SSL certificate!  Is there anything can can be done?

[patrickhait]

Thank you to the tech support team.  Key Store > Public/Private Key Pair.  The trick was that both the public AND the private key had to be .pem files. 

[BobD2]

Thanks for posting your findings here, it helped me finally find the solution to an SFTP connection using a private key. I could not find any documentation that even mentioned the key certificate alias and how that worked.

[odelibalta]

Could you please share what you did? This does not make sense to me. Why does it need both the private and the public keys?

[BobD2]

I won't be able to provide much for details, but from what I remember we wanted to setup an SFTP remote connection in PS using the private/public key authentication type. In order to do that we had to first import a private and public key pair on the digital certificate management page and they both (at least at that time two years ago) had to be in a PEM format.