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LostAsCanBe Guest

Keep receving authenticating w/ pre-entered password..why!?!

2009-02-24 05:17

When I created a user name and password and hit login it worked, now when I hit login under the same user, this promt "authenticating with pre-entered password" comes up and when I enter in my password I get denied..WHY!?!=(

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: Keep receving authenticating w/ pre-entered password..why!?!

2009-02-25

Please read documentation. If that does not help, come back and post a log file.

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neo4 Guest

i cant ssh

2009-03-13 03:41

When I press login after I fill everything right, I get this message:

Authenticating with pre-entered password

plz help

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: i cant ssh

2009-03-13

@neo4: Please read article on reporting bugs and asking for support. You may find there hints that may help you to resolve your problem or at least to report the problem more effectively.

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alexandern Guest

"pre-entered password" fails, (FIX)

2010-07-20 22:52

I had a similar problem, everything would work in interactive mode but using the password in a script would fail.

Fix: Don't forget to encode your password!
E.g.

open sftp://some-user:my+1password@someserver.com

should be

open sftp://some-user:my%2B1password@someserver.com

Here use this to encode
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/session_url#special

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Jens Frandsen Guest

Re: "pre-entered password" fails, (FIX)

2011-03-11 21:03

@alexandern - Thanks for so much for answering the question. I had a similar problem and had already read much of the documentation. The previous responses frustrated me as they clearly not helpful at all. Those types of responses could be generated by bot. Alas, here you not only posted the exact answer I needed, but you gave an example that helped me to instantly understand what you were saying. Now I'm thinking "got to write a script to encode my password, here I go" ... but you you really went the extra mile and provided the handy link to encode a password. Great answer, please keep up the good work.

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LUX Guest

Re: "pre-entered password" fails, (FIX)

2013-07-09 10:45

@alexandern: Great. Thank you! This was the clear answer for this question. The link to the encoding webpage was really helpful.
:D

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Travis M Guest

Re: "pre-entered password" fails, (FIX)

2015-06-23 20:43

@alexandern: That was the fix for me. Thank you very much! You saved my day.

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Keep receving authenticating w/ pre-entered password..why!?!

2015-06-23

The easiest is to have WinSCP generate the session URL for you:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_generateurl

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Gilles.D Guest

Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 0.

2018-10-15 08:49

Hello,

to connect to my server I use the following commands:

option batch on 
option confirm off 
open sftp://otuser:OTMC4societe!@ptrimv03:22

But when connecting here is the error message that I have:

batch           on        
confirm         off       
Searching for host...
Connecting to host...
Authenticating...
Using username "user".
Authenticating with pre-entered password.
Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 0.
Authentication log (see session log for details):
Using username "user".
Authentication failed.

Obviously to connect to the server I must, after filling in the login and password, validate my connection, but I do not know how to fill that in the command line.

Could you help me?

Thank you in advance.

Gilles

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 0.

2018-10-16

@Gilles.D: The credentials in the script are wrong. Are you able to connect in GUI? If you are, follow the advice in my previous post.

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syed Guest

Script error in Authenticating with pre-entered password

2022-04-17 10:33

When I run below script, it's still giving error, while this script is generated from WinSCP GUI (Generate session URL/code). Now when I use command line then same user & password works normally but it does not work in script mode and give error. So, how do I fix this issue?

Batch file:

"E:\BACKUP\WinSCP.com" ^
  /log="C:\writable\path\to\log\WinSCP.log" /ini=nul ^
  /command ^
    "open sftp://cgpexpert:mt2013%%40HW@10.78.144.209/ -hostkey=""ssh-rsa 2048 g3UQWIbxa6xRT/ExIKbYGdoH5XVKkgGxte6tj7ApS2g=""" ^
    "dir" ^
    "cd /" ^
    "exit"

output:

Error occurred during logging. It's been turned off.
Can't open log file 'C:\writable\path\to\log\WinSCP.log'.
System Error. Code: 2.
The system cannot find the file specified
Searching for host...
Connecting to host...
Authenticating...
Using username "cgpexpert".
Authenticating with pre-entered password.
Authenticated.
Starting the session...
Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit status 127.
Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running an SFTP server?

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syed Guest

Script error in Authenticating with pre-entered password

2022-04-17 11:00

I got the solution from anther thread on this platform to use SCP instead of SFTP.

"E:\BACKUP\WinSCP.com" ^
  /log="C:\writable\path\to\log\WinSCP.log" /ini=nul ^
  /command ^
    "open scp://cgpexpert:mt2013%%40HW@10.78.144.209/ -hostkey=""ssh-rsa 2048 g3UQWIbxa6xRT/ExIKbYGdoH5XVKkgGxte6tj7ApS2g=""" ^
    "dir" ^
    "cd /" ^
    "exit"

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Script error in Authenticating with pre-entered password

2022-04-19

@syed: I assume that in GUI you probably have SFTP configured (and consequently the generated code uses SFTP too). But your server seems to have SFTP broken. The GUI by default falls back to legacy SCP protocol in this situation. But the scripting does not.

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yimiez Guest

Batfile error in Authenticating with pre-entered password

2022-04-28 09:44

I have a problem with file .bat
Can't Authentication with pre-enter password

Anyone can help ?

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Batfile error in Authenticating with pre-entered password

2022-05-02

@yimiez: So what kind of "further authentication" does your server require? Can you authenticate in WinSCP GUI? Or using any other client? Can you post session log file from WinSCP scripting and a successful authentication using WinSCP GUI (or the other client)?

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