** Changed in: gvfs
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312289
Title:
gvfs-mount through ssh/sftp fails if host is not already in
known_hosts file
Status in GVFS:
Confirmed
Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
After performing a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, I attempted to mount a
remote computer through ssh/sftp:
$ gvfs-mount ssh://user@host
This resulted in the error message:
Error mounting location: Login dialog cancelled
This had been working fine in my previous installation, so I assumed
that I was missing a package, or that some configuration was wrong.
After some googling, attempts at adding more packages that "might" be
necessary, reboots (just to be sure), I more or less gave up and
thought I'd just live without for a while and ask a question myself on
askubuntu.com.
Then I thought I'd try one last thing; re-install nautilus (which I
normally don't use) and try to mount through the nautilus GUI. That
actually *did* work, but I noticed the "authenticity" message.
So I unmounted, and remounted from the command line. This time it
worked normally. I deleted the "known_hosts" file. Then the error
message was back.
While the workaround is pretty simple, it was quite hard (at least for
me) to figure out what was happening.
My suggestion is to either improve the error message so that users
don't have to guess at what really happened or - preferably -
establish the authenticity in the normal manner also when using the
gvfs-mount command.
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