[Savannah-hackers] regarding current(?) sftp problems

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Savannah Hackers Crew,

according to the Savannah FAQ, sftp is currently having problems.

I have tried connecting using PuTTY with my SSH auth agent running
(Pageant). CVS
access under my developer login works fine, but not SFTP.

Although I explicitly request sftp to use SSH1 authentication, the handshake
seems to
always fall-forward to SSH2. As SSH2 keys are not supported at Savannah, the
sftp
client falls back to password authentication, which fails as Savannah is key
based.

See some command line snippets below.

Regards,

Leon.

C:\PuTTY>psftp -h
PuTTY Secure File Transfer (SFTP) client
Release 0.53b
Usage: psftp [options] address@hidden
Options:
  ...
  -1 -2     force use of particular SSH protocol version

---snippet---
C:\PuTTY>psftp -v -batch -1 address@hidden
Looking up host "savannah.nongnu.org"
Connecting to 199.232.41.4 port 22
Server version: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-0.0woody1
We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Release-0.53b
Using SSH protocol version 2
Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Host key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 1024 e9:bf:6d:09:8d:10:e4:75:13:18:eb:98:d8:88:c8:54
Using username "likewise".
Pageant is running. Requesting keys.
Pageant has 0 SSH2 keys
---/snippet---