(In reply to Rihards Olups from comment #2) > ah, interesting - that's exactly what i reported at bug #856501 :) See comments #4 and #5 there. Regarding the upstream ticket <https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3128> : Could you provide a testcase? Maybe along the lines of <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-12/msg01128.html> ... I'm not that well ATM, got lots to do and my ssh-config is pretty hosed and not a good testcase anyway. (In reply to Rihards Olups from comment #3) > as for mc + sftp + keys, there's an open upstream feature request to support > it [properly] : https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3238 Yeah, that'd be good and there's already code there for it, it just seems to not work (except in some cases, see the mails I mentioned at the end of #c1). But it's much much saner code than fish anyway.