fzputtygen(1)

✨ fzputtygen β€” the FileZilla Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so real quick, this whole thing lives in the FileZilla Manual, and we're talking about fzputtygen(1) today. buckle up πŸŽ€


🌸 NAME 🌸

fzputtygen β€” the SFTP private key converter of FileZilla, no cap πŸ”‘


πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

so fzputtygen is literally part of FileZilla. its whole thing? it converts private keys from OpenSSH or ssh.com format into a format that fzsftp actually understands. glow-up for your keys, fr fr ✨

it usually gets called by FileZilla itself, and it is not intended to be used directly. like, it's the backstage crew, not the main character. let it cook in the background 🫢

also, fun fact, fzputtygen is based on the puttygen component of PuTTY. iconic lineage πŸ’…


🌈 SUPPORT 🌈

please visit https://filezilla-project.org/ for further information, bestie 🌐

🚨 and listen β€” report bugs only if you are using the latest version available from the FileZilla website. do not come for them with a crusty old build, that's not the vibe πŸ™ˆ

Copyright (C) 2004-2018  Tim Kosse
Copyright (C) 1997-2018  Simon Tatham and the PuTTY team

FileZilla is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. slay πŸ¦‹


πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

  • filezilla(1) β€” the main character, go say hi πŸ’–

and that's the whole page, pookie πŸŽ€ this was the FileZilla Manual, dated January 2018, for fzputtygen(1) β€” mwah, take care of your keys πŸ’…βœ¨