close #75 thanks Hi Reinhard, I have checked this issue on my machine. This bug used to exist for quite a while and I ignored it. Reproducing with old pyhoca-gui versions: o generate two rsa/dsa pub+priv keypairs A and B o install the pubkey of A on the server o test that privkey of A for authentication -> works o test privkey B for authentication -> fails with ,,not a valid DSA key'' The error message is raised in Python Paramiko. With latest pyhoca-gui code the issue has vanished. If you use an invalid key (i.e. one that fails to auth with the server), then pyhoca-gui falls back to password authentication. Feel free to reopen this bug, if you experience this differently with versions >= 0.2.1.1 of Python X2Go and PyHoca-GUI. Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, rothenstein 5, 24214 neudorf-bornstein fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb