Nautilus SSH connection timeout when passphrase is prompted but password required

[abeverley]

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Nautilus 3.4.2

I have an SSH key installed in my homedir, but I do not want to (and cannot) use the key to connect to a particular remote server when mounting an SSH share in Nautilus. As a result, Nautilus is timing out when trying to make the connection (it appears to be using my input password as the passphrase, as ssh defaults to using the key).

When connecting with the SSH command, I would use something like the following to prevent my passphrase being requested:

ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=keyboard-interactive,password -l admin www.example.com

However, I cannot find any way to force Nautilus to do the same. As far as I can tell, Nautilus is therefore using my input password for the passphrase.

I have managed to workaround this by using the following .ssh/config:

Host www.example.com
PreferredAuthentications keyboard-interactive,password

But even that is messy as I *do* sometimes need to connect to the same host using a passphrase and key, but as a different remote username.

I can't see an easy solution to this, but consider that an option in the Nautilus SSH "connect to server" dialogue box would be useful, to be able to specify a password or key connection. Interestingly during my research I have come across other people who have been confused by having to put their passphrase into the password dialogue box.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[abeverley (l-andy)]

Filed upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726101

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks