Comment 2 for bug 989452

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I'll attempt to reproduce it.

In the meantime, since you are connecting to root@server, have you made sure that you can ssh to root@server? In the past when I've done that, after creating an ssh key and inserting it into root@server's keyring, I had to log in once by hand to get past ssh's server key fingerprint verification.