Public bug reported:
Hi,
I've been able to successfully use key-based authentication using the
FISH protocol (I just run: cd sh://centos in mc's command line and it
would work). centos is described in my ~/.ssh/config as follows:
Host centos
HostName 192.168.1.239
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/centos
User centos
and it successfully logs in when I provide it with the Host in my
~/.ssh/config file without prompting me for a name or password.
However, the same is not true when I select SFTP instead (cd
sftp://centos) and it requests a password, so it looks like the SFTP VFS
is not processing all the lines in ~/.ssh/config.
I checked and noticed this ticket upstream - https://www.midnight-
commander.org/ticket/3238 - that says that they resolved this issue in
4.8.15. However, on 4.8.15 on Ubuntu 16.04, I still have this problem.
I downloaded and installed from source code (v4.8.17) and indeed the
issue was fixed in upstream.
I am using the latest version of mc on Ubuntu. Here are the package
details:
$ apt policy mc
mc:
Installed: 3:4.8.15-2
Candidate: 3:4.8.15-2
Version table:
*** 3:4.8.15-2 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Thanks.
** Affects: mc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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sftp vfs support not using key-based authentication
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