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MattSharp
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: gFTP SFTP: Needs to authenitate, how do I? |
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So I am having problems with gFTP when I try to use the SSH2 to connect to an SFTP site. It doesn't have the key for the site and says
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How do I do this? I have looked all around and I have SSHed to the site before but it isn't working. Any help would be great. |
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sak102010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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One way to check to see if the key to the site is available is to look in
.ssh/known_hosts
This file is just a listing of the keys to the sites you've connected to via SSH. One per line. If you don't see the machine you're trying to connect to in there, then from a command line, just do
... where 'host' can either be the fully qualified domain name of the server you're connecting to, or the IP address.
If there is already an entry for the machine in the known_hosts file, one thing to try is to delete the key for it and try to connect again to renew the key in your known_hosts file. This might be the case if the server you're connecting to uses a fully qualified domain name. There might be two entries in your known_hosts file for a machine with a fully qualified domain name, one key for the name, and one key for the IP address to the server. If for some reason they are different it would probably cause problems.
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MattSharp
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| sak102010 wrote: | One way to check to see if the key to the site is available is to look in
.ssh/known_hosts
This file is just a listing of the keys to the sites you've connected to via SSH. One per line. If you don't see the machine you're trying to connect to in there, then from a command line, just do
... where 'host' can either be the fully qualified domain name of the server you're connecting to, or the IP address.
If there is already an entry for the machine in the known_hosts file, one thing to try is to delete the key for it and try to connect again to renew the key in your known_hosts file. This might be the case if the server you're connecting to uses a fully qualified domain name. There might be two entries in your known_hosts file for a machine with a fully qualified domain name, one key for the name, and one key for the IP address to the server. If for some reason they are different it would probably cause problems. |
I have tried this but I haven't tried deleting and renewiing the key. I was getting the impression that GFTP stored these known hosts in a different location and that is why it wasn't working. |
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sak102010
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know about gFTP, I've never used it. But my quess from the message you're recieving is that it's looking in the .ssh/known_hosts file for the key - which is why it wants you to connect via command line utility first, and probably answer the question, "Do you want to add this machine to your list of known hosts?"
Do you know much about the server you're trying to connect to? Is it some kind of load balanced server farm, where you connect to a hostname, but it gets forwarded to a different IP address. I wonder if something like this could be happening.
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