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