Bug 212290

Summary: zeroconf kioslave asks to accept every host key without any browsing
Product: [Unmaintained] kio Reporter: Jeffrey <eljefedelito>
Component: zeroconfAssignee: Jakub Stachowski <qbast>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: andrew.crouthamel, eljefedelito
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Zeroconf asking for hostkeys before I have a chace to do anything

Description Jeffrey 2009-10-29 15:28:04 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I installed kde-zeroconf (Debian Sid) and tested it out at my office, which has a few Linux and many Apple p.c.s, and Windows also.

Just browsing to zeroconf:/ in Dolphin starts a chain of popups to accept or not each machine's host key, before I ever browse to a machine. That means I have to click Yes or No around 50 times before I can even begin to browse what may be useful to me.

There shouldn't be any request to accept a host key until AFTER I try to open one of the available zeroconf/avahi shares, not immediately upon browsing to zeroconf:/

Thank you all for KDE.
Comment 1 Jeffrey 2009-10-29 15:30:01 UTC
Created attachment 37947 [details]
Zeroconf asking for hostkeys before I have a chace to do anything

There is a long string of popups asking about accepting host keys for EVERY machine with Zeroconf sharing, before I ever chose to open any of these connections.

Accepting a key should only be prompted for after I try to open a share.
Comment 2 Jeffrey 2009-10-29 15:31:02 UTC
It doesn't help that the dialog box is a different size for each prompt, meaning I cannot just sit and click [Yes] for each prompt easily because often times that [Yes] location is the [No] button's location for the next popup.
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 23:05:39 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 05:35:03 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Jeffrey 2018-11-16 15:42:04 UTC
I  just installed kde-zeroconf on my Debian 9 setup:

$ apt-get install kde-zeroconf avahi-discover
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libglade2-0 python-avahi python-dbus python-gdbm python-glade2
$


In Dolphin, browsing to zeroconf:/ gives an "Invalid Protocol" error. I don't know what I might need to install to change that error and no additional packages were pulled in to make this function.


This report is over 9 years old. If it wasn't interesting then, and can't be reproduced now, I don't think this is worth our time to dig deeper. Please consider closing this report.

Thanks for KDE.
Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-17 04:45:06 UTC
Thanks for the update!