add "normal, password" and "normal, key" as alternate logon types) rather than making assumptions based on the presence or absence of a password. Because of the "blank password" option, it would probably be better to deliberately specify the type of authentication (i.e. I would *much* prefer the ability to specify, somehow, which specific sites may a specific type of credentials. I'm not a big fan of the workarounds, which basically say I have to use two copies (regular and portable) or two configurations of FileZilla (one with the key and one missing the key), but they are doable. Sure, SSH is *supposed* to allow both trying both methods, and servers are *supposed* to as well, but in the real world you have to be able to make adjustments for things not operating entirely to the specs. And yes, their system is apparently at fault, but it's messing with other systems I need to connect to simply because apparently FileZilla has no way to specify if it should authenticate via password or key. The server is run by someone else, of whose system I have no control. Why is this happening, and how can I specify that specific sites require key authentication, and other sites require password? All sites are saved in Site Manager as "Logon Type: Normal". So the mere existence of the key is breaking this site that requires a password. If I remove our key from FileZilla's settings, I can once again connect, and if I add it, it fails. However now when I connect to a different, previously existing password-protected site that has always worked before, the connection fails with a "Server sent disconnect message type 11 (by application)" error, and the people operating the server say they see we are trying to connecting using a key instead of a password. This allowed me to connect to the new site and everything works with this site. Recently a new site required that we connect using SSH key authentication, so I created a key pair, sent them our public key, and added our the private key to FileZilla's Edit -> Settings -> Connection -> SFTP -> Public Key Authentication area. I have a number of SFTP sites I connect to using FileZilla, most of them using password authentication.
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