public key auth from Quick Connect

kspeakman · Post by **kspeakman** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:20 pm

First, I just want to say that I think CyberDuck is just first-rate. It's a great application, and my hat's off to all of you who develop it.

Now to the point. I've looked in the preferences and I can't find a way to use public key authentication from Quick Connect. Is there a way to do this?

My situation is that I'm a systems administrator for a lot of machines. We use ssh to administer them, so we have an automated way of distributing our keys to all of them. So my key works on all of them. However, setting up bookmarks and keychains for all of them is tedious. And that's a lot of bookmarks to hunt through when I want to connect.

So I'm hoping there's a way to tell CyberDuck to use my public key by default and I can just use Quick Connect to get to whatever server I need. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Kasey

Post by **dkocher** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:13 am

You could distribute ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cyberduck/Favorites.plist across the machines.

kspeakman · Post by **kspeakman** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:24 am

dkocher wrote:You could distribute ~/Library/Application\ Support/Cyberduck/Favorites.plist across the machines.

Ok, but how would that help me connect to them? The machines are all servers, so we don't really connect from them usually, but to them.

Besides that, depending on where it is in the list (of say, 100 bookmarks), it will usually be faster to type in the server name (don't have to type the domain) instead of hunting for it in the bookmark list.