From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Galeon/1.3.14 Description of problem: When first ssh or sftp'ing to a host you're asked to trust the authentication of the host, e.g. [noselasd@nos-rh noselasd]$ ssh test.fiane.intra The authenticity of host 'test.fiane.intra (192.168.170.99)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Typing sftp://test.fiane.intra/ in Nautilus when never ssh'ed to it before gives and error: Couldn't display "sftp://test.fiane.intra". Access denied. AND leaves running ssh processes forever it seems(not zombies) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-vfs2-2.6.0-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Nautilus. 2. Connect to a host with sftp:// that you never contacted before. Actual Results: Error messages and leaving running processes as described above. Expected Results: sftp:// ought to work on hosts never contaced before. Possibly presenting a dialog to verify the hosts authentication just like the sftp/ssh command line does. Additional info: Workaround is to first ssh/sftp to the host from a commandline, and answer yes to the "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?"
Fixed in gnome 2.8 (in fc3).