Core Shell wants to use your confidential information stored in "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in your keychain

Core Shell Report Bug
#1

I'm on Big Sur, with Core Shell Basic v2.7 installed.

My daily work involves SSH access to a few Google Cloud instances, and sometimes my private VPS. Accessing the Google Cloud instances is fine, so far.

I found a weird bug when accessing my VPS. When I clicked my VPS profile, a dialog:
"Core Shell wants to use your confidential information stored in "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in your keychain."

appeared. Both my VPS and local Mac OS passwords didn't work. I deleted and recreate the profile (there are no private key & certificate used). The same dialog still appear. So I have to click "Deny" a few times after another password dialog appears. Then I type in my VPS password and succesfully logged in.

Weird, because this didn't happen before.

#2

Hi Andre,

Could you please Keychain Access and search for the item "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"?

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And then navigate to the "Access Control" tab of the item information panel:

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If the key item was created correctly, then the Access Group for it should be:

E78WKS7W4U.io.coressh.passwords

Kindly Regards,

Yang

#3

I found 2 entries related to that IP (which is Digital Ocean's), so deleted them.

Because my VPS instance was rebuilt, I had to delete the old SSH key from ~/Users/<user>/.known_hosts and created another one by trying to SSH it. Done. SSH access works fine.

Now on Core Shell... it doesn't even ask for my password. Eventually you'll see this

➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.00]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.04]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.08]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.12]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.16]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.20]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.24]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.28]
➤ [Abnormal Disconnect 1 Jan 2021 09.13.33]

Yes, both IP and port (22) are already correct. Strangely, SSH-ing all my Google Cloud VMs work fine.

#4

If you do not have Core Helper installed, then the known_hosts file locates here:

~/Library/Group Containers/E78WKS7W4U.io.coressh.ssh/.ssh/known_hosts

Please try removing entries in that file. If it still not work for you, try set Log Level to DEBUG3:

And attached the full connection log.

If ssh command line works fine, then Core Shell should function after Core Helper installed.

Happy new year to you!

Kindly Regards,

Yang