Can't connect to SFTP server

[Sam Morris]

I don't seem to be able to connect to a particular SSH server. I enter its details in the 'connect to server' dialog box, but after pressing Connect, nothing happens.

This server is configured to ask for an OTPW password... when connecting on the command line, the conversation looks like this:

$ ssh host
Password 036:
Password:
Linux host 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 17:54:59 UTC 2007 i686
... etc.

If nautilus is getting confused by the password prompt then the user should be shown some kind of message to indicate this condition... as it is, the window never opens, double clicking on the network share icon on the desktop does nothing, etc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Could you try using the hardy version? Does gnomevfs-ls has the same issue? What software do you use as server?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I tried recreating this on Hardy Heron using nautilus version 2.21.90-0ubuntu1. I took the following steps:
1) Launch nautilus
2) Go -> Location
3) Enter sftp://HOSTNAME
4) Prompted for password
5) Enter password

Then I was able to view files on the remote system. Since this bug is fixed in Hardy I am changing the status to Fix Released.

[Sam Morris (yrro)]

It seems that this is a problem when connecting to servers using challenge/response authentication. Note that my server is configured to prompt the user for a one time password (with pam_otpw.so) before regular password authentication. If I disable OTPW then I can connect as normal.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

can you explain what is this challenge and how to configure it easily to trigger the issue?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.