On 01/26/2010 10:47 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2010-01-26, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> In KDE 4.3.x, when I opened an sftp location in Dolphin, it would read
>> my ssh key (stored in my ~/.ssh/ directory) and would not ask for a
>> password. After updating to 4.4 RC1 (and now RC2), this doesn't happen
>> anymore. Dolphin seems to read hostnames from ~/.ssh/config just fine,
>> but it keeps asking me for a password instead of using my ssh key (the
>> ssh key itself is not password protected.)
>>
>> Is this a bug or did something change in KDE 4.4? The "ssh" and "scp"
>> commands work fine. My ~/.ssh/config has this:
>>
>> Host myserv
>> User realnc
>> HostName foo.bar.baz.co.uk
>> IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity_myserv
>>
>> Dolphin is able to figure out that "sftp://myserv"; means
>> "sftp://realnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; (that means the "Host" and "User"
>> fields of the config file have effect) but it just won't use my
>> ~/.ssh/identity_myserv key and will ask for realnc@myserv's password
>> instead.
>
> Maybe this needs ssh-agent and there is a problem with that program.
> Can you check whether ssh-agent is running for this user account?
No, it's not running. I never dealt with that program before actually
and didn't even know it exists, which makes me assume it's not needed.
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