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

[Michael Schuerig <michael.lists@schuerig.de>]

On Donnerstag, 6. September 2018 16:38:23 CEST Boris Pek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 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.
> You need to remove the string with that host key from file
> ~/.ssh/known_hosts Or just delete file ~/.ssh/known_hosts completely. It
> will be filled again during your regular usage of ssh connections.

Unfortunately, that does not work. I removed the offending key from 
known_hosts and explicitly forced the addition of an RSA key with

  ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa user@server

The error message in Dolphin remains the same afterwards.

Michael

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