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Subject:    Re: [ jEdit-users ] sftp and public key authentication
From:       maxwell <maxwell () umiacs ! umd ! edu>
Date:       2016-10-01 23:52:33
Message-ID: 57F04C41.2060409 () umiacs ! umd ! edu
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I figured it out.  I believe puTTy looks for the public key in 
~/.ssh2/authorization, and that's where I was putting the public key for 
jedit.  But in fact jEdit looks for the public key in 
~/.ssh/authorization (I'm sure of the latter, because it wasn't working 
until I put it there).

Thanks for the advice!

    Mike Maxwell

On 10/1/2016 2:08 AM, David Busby wrote:
> And putty uses a specific format for the private side. You have to make
> a standard format for jEdit. And when connecting you specify which key
> to use, its not auto selected.
>
> On 30 Sep 2016 9:20 pm, "Alan Ezust" <alan.ezust@gmail.com
> <mailto:alan.ezust@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It works for me.
>     However, I do know that certain key types do not work in the jsch
>     (the java library of ssh), which do work from ssh.
>     Is your key really old? Try creating a new key pair with a current
>     version of ssh-keygen and see if that works.
>
>     On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:38 PM, maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu
>     <mailto:maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>         Does public key authentication work for anyone using the FTP plugin?
>
>         I have a private key file on my local machine, and a public key
>         on the remote machine, which work fine with puTTy.  But I can't make
>         them work in jEdit with the SFTP connection.
>
>         The key is an RSA key (I'm told DSA keys are not secure).  I believe
>         puTTy expects the public key to be in ~/.SSH2/; is jEdit looking
>         in the same place?
>
>         I'm using jEdit 5.1.0 (yes, I know that's a little old), FTP plugin
>         version 1.3.2 (which btw works fine with password
>         authentication).  This is different from the problem remembering
>         the RSA key that I reported back in Feb, and for which Alan provided
>         a fix.  (For the record, I've never been able to get public key
>         authentication working in jEdit, and
>         gave up; I'm returning to it now because I have some spare time.)
>
<snip>
>              Mike Maxwell

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