At 5:17 PM -0400 7/16/09, Patrick Woolsey sent email regarding Re: sftp as root: >you wrote: >[...] >>After I click the connect button, BBEdit says: Opening sftp >>connection and puts up an additional password dialog. Entering the >>password does not log me in. >> > >What app version are you running?
version 9.2.1 (2532) of Fri, 19 Jun 2009 Trying to sftp to my server as root using passwordless public key authentication. Previously, I used sftp with passwords, until I set up ssh using keys, no passwords. Now that I should be able to connect with no password, BBE won't let me delete the passwords from the ftp settings. I click to "Change" the ftp settings, remove the password and tell it to Save. When next I open that setting, the password is back. I tried completely deleting the connection setting and recreating it with no password. When I selected the re-created setting to "Change" it had a password. I think it's looking in Keychain and fetching the password for that user/host and inserting that password. So I deleted that password from keychain. Now each time I select that ftp bookmark, BBE pops up a separate dialog asking: "Password for r...@[hostname]" with Cancel and (disabled) OK button. Apparently, if I hit Cancel, it won't even bother to try connecting. I do not have this problem with a non-root account that also uses public key authentication. root seems to behave differently or be a special case. Yes, I can ssh as root to the host in question using Terminal. Secure.log on the host has no logged attempts from my IP address so I have to think that, sans a password, BBE doesn't even attempt to connect as root. System.log, however, says: Jul 19 17:11:38 smtp DirectoryService[65]: Failed Authentication return is being delayed due to over five recent auth failures for username: root. Jul 19 17:11:38 smtp sshd[14379]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from [my.public.hostname] Jul 19 17:11:38 smtp sshd[14379]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from [my.public.hostname] Jul 19 17:11:38 smtp sshd[14379]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from [my.public.hostname] Who is this "Pam" and why is she preventing me from logging in? ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
