I have openssh deamons running on two separate linux vps configured with preshared keys. Both are confirmed to work and I’ve previously used RaiDrive to mount their file systems locally on Windows. I am currently limited to linux and am attempting the same on my current system… however, raidrivecli seems to not understand how preshared keys work.
An example with one of the vps in question:
It appears to be asking me for a password despite being told to use my private keyfile instead. I thought it might be asking for the password on the key file and gave that, but as you can see, it did not work. I’ve also tried specifying the password for the keyfile on the command line with the --private-key-password option… something I am actually strongly opposed to doing in practice… but this still requested that I enter a password and failed with the same error above.
I currently have the remote sftp shares mounted locally via sshfs and a couple lines in my fstab file. However, I’ve found that this setup behaves very badly if network connections drop or change when moving from location to location. My entire system locks up when I try to unmount or access these shares after such an event. I am hoping RaiDrive will be more tolerant of such issues.
Any help would be much appreciated.
NOTE: I simply wanted to head off any confusion in advanced about why the port seems to be ghosted. Port 22 on the machine in the above screenshot is blocked to all IPs that are not in a netfilter-based whitelist. So if anyone attempts to test/connect you will simply time out instead. This is one of many security measures I’ve implemented. I have confirmed that my current IP is whitelisted and am, at this very instant, logged into the vps machines via ssh using the same key as the above screenshot… so that’s definitely not the issue here.
