Re: sftp and public key authentication

And putty uses a specific format for the private side. You have to make a
standard format for jEdit. And when connecting you specify which key to
use, its not auto selected.

On 30 Sep 2016 9:20 pm, "Alan Ezust" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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(ListD
>> irectoryBrowserTask.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(ThreadPool
>> Executor.java:1142)
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoo
>> lExecutor.java:617)
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
>> java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask: Caused
>> by: com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth cancel
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
>> com.jcraft.jsch.Session.connect(Session.java:511)
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  at
>> ftp.SFtpConnection.<init>(SFtpConnection.java:143)
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ListDirectoryBrowserTask:  ... 8
>> more
>> 7:30:05 PM [jEdit Worker #1] [error] ErrorListDialog$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
>> -------------
>>
>>     Mike Maxwell
>>
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