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In linux command line, when I connect to sftp or ssh this, it connects using my public keys and doesn't ask me for a password.
sftp user@host
It also works when I do
ssh user@host
But somehow when I do an SFTP link through MC, it keeps prompting me for a password.
Does MC not use the SSH public key to connect password-less? Or is there a way to manually allow MC to use the public key authentication?
You have put the host in your ~/.ssh/config file:
Host your.host.name.or.ip
User your.remote.username
IdentityFile /path/to/your/keyfile
sh://joe@somehost.ssh.edu:2222/private) instead of SFTP link. – Dimitri Bolt Jan 26 at 15:03