[ forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/379106 ]

When trying to use nautilus's sftp remote access method to access my
ssh login server nothing happens for ca 30sec, no password request box,
nothing, and then it fails with the error message:

Nautilus cannot display "sftp://www.strul.nu/tmp".
Please select another viewer and try again.

Removing keys from $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts on originator gets a
popup-window asking for confirmation of unknown host, as expected, but
still no password box.

When selecting 'PreferredAuthentications password' in
$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts it all of a sudden works, in that I now get a
password request box. The problem with this is that I can't login with
this authentication method, since I need to authenticate to
pam. However, this leads to the speculation that the remote access
method fails to recognize the password prompt my system shows when using
libpam-krb5.

pam version:
Password for tobbe@STRUL.NU:

normal password version:
tobbe@www.strul.nu's password:


This prompt is set by libpam-krb5, and is not configurable, but even if
it were, I feel that the fault lies with nautilus (or whatever
library/helper/whatever) it is using. Or am I missing something here?