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Timur Born:
Hello.

I am trying to setup a SFTP connection with a public/private keypair that does *not* use a key password. Unfortunately MC insists on asking me for a password and then claims that the empty password failed.


--- Quote ---Ask for password for keyfile failed - Aborting...
--- End quote ---

Mathias (Author):
Not sure that can be changed.  MC is using 3rd party library for the SSH. So MC do not have full control over everything

Timur Born:
Thanks for the quick answer. Problem is that I cannot just easily change the private key to include a password for my Oracle VM. WinSCP, Double Commander and Total Commander all work without a password for the private key (just left empty). When the password is left empty in MC then it popups up a pw dialog instead and leaving that empty produces the error I quoted.

Timur Born:
I added a password to the private key file via:


--- Code: ---ssh-keygen -p -f
--- End code ---

But that leads to the following error:

> Failed to authenticate using keyfile : -19

Then I deleted the PW again via the same ssh-keygen command and now MC accepts the empty PW (no popup appears), but this still ends in the same failed authenticate error message.

Timur Born:
I also tried MuCommander and that worked, too.

The failed password message seems to always happen when MC opens the PW popup, regardless of whether the key file's PW is empty or not.

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