[Cyberduck-trac] [Cyberduck] #5148: Lookup of password for private key fails in Keychain
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Wed Nov 2 13:25:31 CET 2011
#5148: Lookup of password for private key fails in Keychain
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Reporter: | Owner: dkocher
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id | Status: closed
=aitoawkzi_jjkcstlmduxr1f9ns-q8apyggmg-w | Milestone: 3.7
Type: defect | Version: 3.6.1
Priority: normal | Resolution: fixed
Component: sftp | Architecture: Intel
Severity: blocker |
Keywords: private key, sftp |
Platform: Mac OS X 10.6 |
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Comment (by elmimmo):
Decided to break backward compatibility with SSHKeychain in r7027
Cyberduck (tried 4.1 (8911)) should still IMHO be finding the password for
my private key in Keychain.
In OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard at least, when you open an SSH connection
through the Terminal with the {{{ ssh }}} command with a server that has
your public key, you are asked with a secure Cocoa dialog (not prompt) to
"Enter your password for the SSH Key 'id_rsa'." (if that is the name where
your private key resides), with the option to "Save password in Keychain".
If one ticks that, on a subsequent connection {{{ ssh-agent }}} will ask
to have access to the keychain where the password for the private key
resides in order to be able to open the connection with that private key
without prompting for its password.
In other words, OS X does have a method for storing and reading the
password for private keys in the Keychain without any need of third party
software such as SSHKeychain.
It would be nice if Cyberduck detected OS X-saved password to my private
key in the Keychain, and asked me for access to it, instead of asking the
password to my private key (just as a note, Transmit 4 does).
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/5148#comment:24>
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