Re: sftp and public key authentication

It works for me.
However, I do know that certain key types do not work in the jsch (the java
library of ssh), which do work from ssh.
Is your key really old? Try creating a new key pair with a current version
of ssh-keygen and see if that works.



On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:38 PM, maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does public key authentication work for anyone using the FTP plugin?
>
> I have a private key file on my local machine, and a public key on the
> remote machine, which work fine with puTTy.  But I can't make them work
> in jEdit with the SFTP connection.
>
> The key is an RSA key (I'm told DSA keys are not secure).  I believe
> puTTy expects the public key to be in ~/.SSH2/; is jEdit looking in the
> same place?
>
> I'm using jEdit 5.1.0 (yes, I know that's a little old), FTP plugin
> version 1.3.2 (which btw works fine with password authentication).  This
> is different from the problem remembering the RSA key that I reported
> back in Feb, and for which Alan provided a fix.  (For the record, I've
> never been able to get public key authentication working in jEdit, and
> gave up; I'm returning to it now because I have some spare time.)
>
> In case it's any help, jEdit's activity log records the ff.:
> --------------
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:
> java.io.IOException: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth cancel
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> ftp.SFtpConnection.<init>(SFtpConnection.java:154)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> ftp.ConnectionManager.getConnection(ConnectionManager.java:528)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> ftp.FtpVFS.getConnection(FtpVFS.java:529)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> ftp.FtpVFS._canonPath(FtpVFS.java:199)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> org.gjt.sp.jedit.browser.ListDirectoryBrowserTask._run(
> ListDirectoryBrowserTask.java:73)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> org.gjt.sp.util.Task.run(Task.java:64)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(
> ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(
> ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask: Caused
> by: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth cancel
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:511)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
> ftp.SFtpConnection.<init>(SFtpConnection.java:143)
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  ... 8
> more
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry:
> sftp://[email protected]:22/~/:
> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ErrorListDialog$ErrorEntry: Cannot
> list directory: java.io.IOException: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth
> cancel
> -------------
>
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>
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