Bug 450892 - "REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!" appears as "...Host key verification failed"
Summary: "REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!" appears as "...Host key verificatio...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nautilus
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-11 17:19 UTC by cje
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:12:37 UTC
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Description cje 2008-06-11 17:19:32 UTC
Description of problem:
if you try to connect to a SSH file server and the host identity doesn't agree
with what's in your known_hosts file then you're told "service not available" -
which seems wrong.

if you try to connect via 'ssh' on the command line then you get a fairly
alarming but helpful message.

for reference the dialog generated by winscp is similarly alarming and even more
helpful as it has a 'fix this and carry on' button with some good explanatory text.

the dialog nautilus presents the first time you connect to the SSH server is
similarly helpful - something along those lines would be excellent.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.20.0-9.fc8

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:51:03 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:35:20 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Comment 3 cje 2009-03-04 00:10:19 UTC
current message is:

"Could not open location 'sftp://....@...../....'

Host key verification failed"

which is, obviously, a lot better.

but i still think it would be even better to show something closer to the dialog you get the first time you try to connect.

e.g. an error dialog saying something like:

"The identification shown by the remote computer (......) has changed.

This might mean that it is not really the one to which you were attempting to connect.

The identity sent by the remote computer is 72:23:5d:b3:08:ad:5d:d6:ad:87:ce:b6:fc:ae:cc:bc. If you want to be sure it is safe to continue you should contact the administrator of the remote computer.

Cancel Login | Accept New Identification and Log In Anyway"

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 12:34:36 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:12:37 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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