[Bug 45232] Spurious 'Authentication Required' messages

chombee seanh at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed May 17 20:39:23 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

I have this bug on ubuntu breezy. Guessing, it appears to be a bug in
nautilus.

I often use nautilus to access folders in a couple of remote accounts I
have via SSH. This works fine. But since I've been doing it a window
frequently pops up:

----------------------------------
Authentication Required

You must log in to access user at account

Password:

 x Remember password for this session
 x Save password in keyring

 Cancel Connect
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The account it's asking me to log in to is one of the two SSH accounts I
sometimes visit with nautilus. It doesn't seem to be either one in
particular, just one or the other each time. The problem is that this
Authentication Required window is popping up at times when I'm not doing
anything related to SSH. Times I have seen it include (but are not
limited to):

* When taking a screenshot of my desktop
* When extracting or creating an archive with file-roller
* After clicking 'Save a copy' in GEdit.

It just seems to me that certain random actions trigger the message,
although the same actions will trigger it again and again.

I heard a theory that this was because nautilus had my remote folders
mounted, but this doesn't seem to be the case, I have seen the spurious
message in sessions in which I have not used SHH at all.

The Authentication Required window is usually (probably always) preceded
by an 'Unlock Keyring' window. If I click Cancel to the Authentication
Required message (or Deny to the Unlock Keyring message) because I don't
want to give nautilus my password right now the Authentication Required
or the Unlock Keyring just comes back, again and again (they take turns,
I get one window then the other).

If I give the Authentication Required window my password and then click
Connect the window freezes for a while and then the Unlock Keyring
window pops back up, asking for my password to connect or to unlock the
keyring again.

Usually I can get the message to go away and whatever action I was
requesting to succeed if I give the Unlock Keyring window the password
to access my keyring and then choose 'allow this application to access
the keyring' in a third window that pops up.

I've marked this bug as a security issue, since nautilus is asking for
my password when it shouldn't need it, and I'm repeatedly having to
throw my password around to get past the issue.

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Needs Info

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Spurious 'Authentication Required' messages
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45232




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