Re: kio_sftp: "The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists."
On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 11:57:38 AM CEST Michael Schuerig wrote:
> Network folders in Dolphin don't work for me anymore after some recent
> update. I'm using a current unstable system. sftp on the commandline
> continues to work as before.
>
> The error message I get in Dolphin is
>
> > The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key
> > exists.
> > An attacker might change the default server key to confuse your client
> > into
> > thinking the key does not exist. Please contact your system administrator.
>
> My connection attempts were to machines running Debian/testing and macOS
> (10.13.6).
>
> I've found a couple of similar errors on the web
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/598455/problems-with-kio-sftp-in-dolphin-kon
> queror https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274170
>
> However, they have in common that they are several years old. If they are
> still pertinent, I ought to have seen this problem for a long time. Which is
> not the case. Things worked flawlessly until recently.
>
> Notwithstanding, I tried forcing the use of an RSA key like this
>
> ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa user@server
I truly know nothing in that department. But I might have glimpsed something
during my last update:
https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/openssh/+changelog
Couldn't say if it'd be related, even remotely. Or/and, if it could be of any
use.
Chris
>
> but it didn't result in any noticeable change. ~/.xsession-errors contains
> contains informative entries for log_kio_sftp, but no error messages.
>
> Any ideas what might be going wrong and what I can do about it?
>
> Michael
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