Use default SSH public key first

[tom@…]

Cyberduck always prompts me for the password even if I have a public key which openssh uses by default to log in on the server. I shouldn't have to set the public key for every connection manually.

[dkocher]

Replying to tom@…:

Cyberduck always prompts me for the password even if I have a public key which openssh uses by default to log in on the server. I shouldn't have to set the public key for every connection manually.

It should read the configuration from the OpenSSH configuration file as described in help/en/howto/ssh.

[tom@…]

I was on that page before but it is not clear to me what I have to do for Cyberduck to automatically read my ~/.ssh/id_rsa key. Where (and why) do I specify the key in the config?

[dkocher]

Replying to tom@…:

I was on that page before but it is not clear to me what I have to do for Cyberduck to automatically read my ~/.ssh/id_rsa key. Where (and why) do I specify the key in the config?

I have updated the page with additional info. We do not read the id_rsa by default. You have to specify the key explicitly in the configuration file.

[tom@…]

This does not work for the quick connect field, also shouldn't be required for the user to set up an IdentityFile.

[dkocher]

#5893 closed as duplicate.

[dkocher]

In r9278.

[dkocher]

We have disabled this by default in r9324 because of #6388. To enable, set the ​hidden configuration option ssh.authentication.publickey.default.enable to true.

[dkocher]

Documentation in ​OpenSSH Configuration Interoperability.