Login problem with SFTP plugin

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Roi
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Login problem with SFTP plugin

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Hello all,

after changing my SSH passwords to something more strong (115 bits according to KeePass) I cannot login anymore to my servers using the SFTP plugin of Total Commander for Android.

The error on the device is:

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UserAuthException: Exhausted available authentification methods
On the server I see in /var/log/auth.log:

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May 10 13:18:51 server sshd[7404]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=1.2.3.4  user=USER
May 10 13:18:53 server sshd[7404]: Failed password for USER from 1.2.3.4 port 48845 ssh2
And yes, I am sure I entered the password correctly. ;-) I also tried several servers where I use the password. Always the same problem.

Is there a problem with the plugin handling long passwords or maybe some special characters?

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Roi
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Post by *Roi »

Hm, ok, forget it - but maybe a hint for others:

It seems that Android, Cyanogen Mod, Swiftkey, only my device (?) does not send the character § correctly. I used a different special character among others now, and it works.

Strange...
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

That's probably an encoding problem - § uses a different code in UTF-8 than in ANSI (Western) encoding.
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Post by *theincogtion »

Same problem here! I am using the SFTP plugin and my password does not contain xxxx. With solid explorer I can login but not with total commander.
my password has more than xx characters. May this be a problem?

edit:
problem solved; perhaps some whitespaces?
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