Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 197929
Nautilus/gnome-vfs sftp:// doesn't handle first time login
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:26 EST
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #123882 +++ 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)?" -- Additional comment from alexl@redhat.com on 2004-10-15 10:38 EST -- Fixed in gnome 2.8 (in fc3). Actually, that was fixed later on, but not in FC3 or RHEL4. Patch (ie. upstream hack) attached
Created attachment 132050 [details] gnome-vfs-increase-sftp-timeout.patch
This is the upstream bug for doing this properly: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346888
This was solved properly in version 1.8 of sftp-method.c by using a QUESTION callback to the user. This was first released in a stable version in gnome-vfs 2.8.0 unfortunately. I'm not sure how the timeout is related to this though. Bastien, could you explain more?
Hmm, I'm not sure the original description of the bug is exactly the one encountered. The problem was: ---8<--- - In Nautilus "File" menu select "Connect to Server" - Select "SSH" as service type - Insert "127.0.0.1" in "Server" box - Click on "Connect" - An icon "127.0.0.1" will be created on desktop but nothing else will happens ---8<--- And it should actually give an "Access denied" error. This was already fixed upstream with: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-vfs/modules/sftp-method.c?r1=1.29&r2=1.30 We just don't get to see the error because it doesn't wait long enough for the whole output to show.
Ok. Then the patch looks ok to me.
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