Re: kio_sftp: "The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists."

[laurent Trinques <scorpio@qelectrotech.org>]

Le mardi 4 septembre 2018, 11:57:38 CEST Michael Schuerig a écrit :
> 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
> 
> 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

Hello,

strange not problem here with sftp, you could try fish 
fish://login@yourserver:22/directory
sftp://login@yourserver:22/directory

Laurent