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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on September 01, 2025, 22:15:32 »

It should send a blank pw to SSH if you just press ok in password dialog. You sure there is not any other error.. Any error in the Log ?
Sure you press OK in the password dialog. the error "Ask for password for keyfile failed - Aborting..." is only outputted to the log if the Ask Password dialog is cancelled

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Timur Born on September 01, 2025, 22:12:59 »

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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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Timur Born on September 01, 2025, 22:08:57 »

I added a password to the private key file via:

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ssh-keygen -p -f
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.

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Timur Born on September 01, 2025, 21:39:01 »

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.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Free space in the interface.

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on September 01, 2025, 17:59:25 »

Drives are one toolbar... FreeSpace info area are one. they are separate in MC.  They can't be merged into one.
But instead of have a drive bar inside the explorer panel. you can have a global one instead on top. to save some space..

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on September 01, 2025, 17:56:35 »

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

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Free space in the interface.

« Last post by dddima on September 01, 2025, 17:29:28 »

Could you explain?
Because the presence of buttons for disks adds convenience. and the drop-down menu is convenient but not for quick operations with files.

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Support and Feedback / SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« Last post by Timur Born on September 01, 2025, 17:01:51 »

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.

Ask for password for keyfile failed - Aborting...

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Free space in the interface.

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on September 01, 2025, 16:26:06 »

no it is different bars.. But why not have a global drive bar instead then you don't need the one inside the explorer panel.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Free space in the interface.

« Last post by dddima on September 01, 2025, 16:04:29 »

Good afternoon.
I tried to configure the interface so that the tab bar and disk selection were always visible. But I always had empty space left... Is it possible to align them in a single row so that there is no empty space? This is especially important when using a small laptop screen.
As, for example, in another file manager on the second screen